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Follow-up: I tested the same commands on my own server at home (no domain and using local users instead of domain). In this case what I want to do works right off the bat! cvs passwd -r bob -a setupmgr cvs login (as setupmgr) cvs ls (shows the modules) etc) This is on 57f if that changes things. So there is something mysterious going on when I work towards the server that is part of a domain. Are there impersonation problems for pserver when the CVSNT server is a member of a domain? What I need is for the setupmgr to connect through pserver in order to get a way to include the password in the script and so have the whole export done from within a batch file irrespective of who runs the batchfile. I planned on using something similar to: set CVSROOT=:pserver:setupmgr:<his password>@server:/repository cvs export .... /Bo On Sun, 13 Oct 2002 12:43:51 +0200, Bo Berglund <bo.berglund at telia.com> wrote: >Thanks for your quick reply! >I gave Everybody full control as well as the CV usergroups and SYSTEM >that were there before but that did not help. Still can't create >directory error. > >I tried opening up the SYSTEM command window as you suggested but that >failed, the CMD process got created but no visible window showed up. >Might be because I have access to this W2K server ony by means of >Terminal Services and maybe the remote desktop does not show >interactive windows... >However setting up an at command to create a new folder worked, this >folder showed up, but is apparently owned by myself. But I might be >looking in the wrong place for the owner, see below... > >>Open the directory to 'everyone', start a large checkout/in and check the >>permissions of the temp directory whilst it's still there. That'll tell >>you who is trying to create it. > >Did that as myself (sspi) from another PC and the temp dir got >created. How can I determine for sure who is actually creating this >dir?? >I tried rightclick and select properties/security. Then on the >Advanced/Owner tab it says: >Administrators (group) and >Bo Berglund (bob) >Does this indicate that the temp dir gets created by bob in this case >(I am connecting using sspi when I do the large checkout)?? > >What would happen if I use pserver in this case then? (Of course I >cannot snatch this since this is where it fails.) > >>Setup an interactive shell as SYSTEM (at <now+1 minute> /INTERACTIVE >>cmd.exe) then try to change directory/make directory & see if it works. >> >>> Is there some problem with the impersonation so that when I log in via >>> pserver as setupmgr I am not properly aliased to DOMAIN\bob as I >>> thought? >> >>If DOMAIN is the default domain for the server and it's let you in then it >>should have worked. >> >I tried cvs passwd -r DOMAIN\bob setupmgr >This placed the DOMAIN\bob as the aliased user but it gave no >different result to having just bob as the alias... > >?? > > >/Bo >(Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden) /Bo (Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)