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Hi all, Our office in Ireland cannot login to the repository in Holland. We use the pserver protocol over a VPN connection and server 2.0.12. The problem is that the Irish users are members of domain seagullirl and in Holland (where the server is) we are part of the domain seagull. So for Irish users to connect, they will have to add 'seagullirl\' to their user name eg: :pserver:seagullirl\john at cvs1.seagull.nl:c:\repo. The problem is that the server reports for them: no such user. I've tracked the problem down to the use of the NetGetAnyDCName function in win32.c. The first parameter is NULL, which specifies the server to execute the request. NULL means to use the local computer. The MSDN documentation on this function states: "... If 'servername' specifies a workstation that is a member of a domain, or a server that is a member of a domain, the domainname must be in the same domain as 'servername'. If 'servername' specifies a domain controller, the domainname must be one of the domains trusted by the domain for which the server is a controller...." Our CVS server is NO domain controller, so the first rule applies: the domainname specified must be in the same domain as the server is. But that is not the case, since our server is part of the 'seagull' domain, and the domain specified is 'seagullirl'. Seagullirl is a trusted domain, but trusted domains are only checked if the server specified is a domain controller. So the result is that no dc is returned, and later on the function NetUserGetInfo will fail and report that the specified user doesn't exist. If I substitute NetGetAnyDCName by NetGetDCName the PDC of the seagullirl domain is returned and all runs well. It looks like NetGetAnyDCName was added in version 1.56 of win32.c without any clear description why. What's the drawback to replace NetGetAnyDCName by NetGetDCName? If there is one, why not make a combination of both? If the first one fails the second one still has the possibility to come up with a valid dc. Regards, Mathieu Veurman Mathieu Veurman Development Team Leader, Palo Alto <mailto: mveurman at seagull.nl> Seagull Software Korte Parallelweg 1, 3311 JN Dordrecht, The Netherlands Tel. +31 78 6322800, Fax +31 78 6138134 http://www.seagullsoftware.com/