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Hi Glen, You're right. The file system permissions granted to the SYSTEM user were insufficient. I changed these for both SYSTEM and "cvsuser." pserver is now working fine. I next tried the ntserver method and ran into a bit of trouble; I didn't realize that the writers file (not just file system permissions) affected user access. After adding cvsuser and Administrator to the writers file, I was able to execute: cvs - d :ntserver:theta:d:\cvsrepo\test2 passwd -a cvsuser without incident. (Before editing the writers file, I got an error message indicating that the specified user did not have write permission on the repository.) I also commented out the SystemAuth=yes line in the config file. (This seems to affect ntserver as well, though I'm not quite sure in what manner.) I read your SetACLS article; this was tremendously helpful (Section 1.4.2 is where I learned the dependency of the ntserver method on the writers file - thanks!). I've also downloaded your SetACLS.cmd script. Thanks once again for your kind assistance (and your article!). Yours truly, Jim Bonang "Glen Starrett" <grstarrett at cox.net> wrote in message news:mailman.29.1060728630.590.cvsnt at cvsnt.org... > > I followed Bo Berglund's excellent CVSNT Installation > > Background for the most part, but creating the repository > > under the Administrator account is evidently not a common approach. > > I don't believe that is true at all--I think most people have installed > and created their repositories under the adminitrator account. It is > possible though that if you locked down the permissions on the cvsnt / > repository / temp directories that you neglected to grant permissions to > the SYSTEM account. Usually the SYSTEM account has access via MS' > "generous" everyone read access but that is sometimes removed. Did you > check that SYSTEM had permissions on the files? > > Regards, > > Glen Starrett >