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On Thu, 5 Sep 2002 13:15:57 +0200, guenther.grau at ubs.com wrote: >What are the problems using CVS on a network share, >apart from the one being mentioned above, which can be worked >around? Would you recommend against using this setup in production >for team src code management? > This has been discussed frequently. Basically on a network share, apart from the traffic issues (the repository data is travelling over the network twice for every action) the locking over a network share isn't reliable enough to be 100% certain you won't get issues with it. Also to use the repository over a network share takes some extra configuration (running the service as a normal user and disabling impersonation). Tony