[cvsnt] Re: Permission denied (config)

keinespams at gmx.de keinespams at gmx.de
Mon Mar 10 11:22:30 GMT 2003


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Hello!

after many sour hours I have solved a problem where nobody on this list
helped me. I do not know why, since otherwise I found this list extremely helpful
and people very willing to help (thanks Tony, thanks Bo, and thanks to all
the others).

The error message was:

cvs [passwd aborted]: unrecognized auth response from ALI: cvs server: E
cannot open G:/cvs/cvsrepo/TEST/CVSROOT/config: Permission denied

The solution to this error is so simple, it is utterly embarrassing:

The root drive for the repositiory must be a physical existing hard disk. In
my case, it was a mapped drive (G:). On the same computer though, but it was
mapped. The cvsnt service could somehow not resolve this path, thus it did
not find the neccessary files. When I changed the root drive, everything
worked fine for me. There was never a reason the map this directory anyway, I do
not why this was done.

Maybe this could make it into the installation guidelines? I doubt there are
as silly people as me out there, but one never knows...

Achim


> Hi,
>
> please HELP me! I have tried everything with our administrator, but we
could
> not get CVSNT running!
>
> The following was already discussed on the list, but unfortunately it did
> not help me. I already asked again, but nobody answered. I am desperate
for
> help!
>
> When I do the following I am getting an error message:
>
> C:\>set CVSROOT=:ntserver:ALI:/TEST
>
> C:\>cvs passwd -a haag
> cvs [passwd aborted]: unrecognized auth response from ALI: cvs server: E
> cannot open G:/cvs/cvsrepo/TEST/CVSROOT/config: Permission denied
>
> I have checked the directory tree on the server ALI: Both "System" and
> "Everyone" have full read/write access to all directories.
> The CVS repository is on a W2K-server in a domain. The CVSNT service is up
> and running.
> I am logged in as administrator on the server. However, user 'haag' (which
I
> want to add to the password list) does not have an account on the server
> ALI, but in the domain.
> I have followed Bo Berglunds installation instructions as closely as
> possible (as you can see from the "/TEST"...).
>
> What is wrong here? How can I check? At what stage in the CVSNT service
try
> to access the "config" file?
> 
> Thanks many many times for your help!
> 
> 
> Achim Haag
> mail: keinespams at gmx.de (this is not a spam address, it is an address to
> keep out spams!)

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