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Dear CVS Experts, I'm having difficulty with remote access to my CVSNT (2.1.1) repository under Windows 2000 Server. I installed CVSNT as Administrator. The CVS Service and Locking Service are running. "Server side support for ntserver protocol", "Impersonation", and "Use local users for pserver authentication instead of domain users" are enabled. I've set up access for user "anonymous" in the passwd file and in the writers file in \CVSROOT for repository d:\cvsrepo\test2. When I try to access the repository from the local machine using either the ntserver, pserver or sspi protocols, a file permission error is generated. (I imported a project into the repository using the :local protocol without difficulty.) The command and error message (for psever) are as follows: D:\cvsrepo\test2\CVSROOT>cvs -d:pserver:anonymous at theta:d:\cvsrepo\test2 login Logging in to :pserver:anonymous at theta:2401:d:/cvsrepo/test2 CVS password: cvs [login aborted]: unrecognized auth response from theta: cvs server: E cannot open d:/cvsrepo/test2/CVSROOT/config: Permission denied The same error message occurs when trying to access the repository from a remote machine using the pserver protocol. (When I use ntserver or sspi, the error indicates "Authentication failed.") I've removed the repository prefix setting in the CVSNT control panel. I also tried setting SysAuth=no in the \CVSROOT\config file. The Administrator user has full access to the CVSROOT\config file, the cvstemp directory, etc. I tried to follow the instructions in the CVSNT Installation Tips, but have evidently made an egregious error. (I haven't found any obvious equivalent to the unix/linux inet.d --allow-root=<directory> CVS option for the Windows version. Is there something similar that needs to be set on Windows 2000?) Thank you very much for any assistance you can provide. (I've used CVS under Linux without any trouble, but I'm not as familiar as I should be with Windows Administration.) Yours truly, Jim Bonang