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Hi all, I've experimented a little more and have an interim solution. The CVS repository directory was created under the Administrator account. The cvsservice and CVS Lock Service run as Windows Services, and thus are owned by default by the SYSTEM user. SYSTEM evidently has insufficient privileges When I changed the owner of the service to administrator, I was able to access the config file and use the pserver remote access method. In the hope this may help other users, I'll post any additional information regarding file permissions for the other access methods (ntserver, sspi) in due course. Thanks to Glen Starrett and Ian Epperson for their timely and expert assistance. Yours truly, Jim B. "Jim B." <none at none.com> wrote in message news:bhb74s$6qa$1 at sisko.local.nodomain.org... > 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 > > >