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On Sun, 6 Jun 2004 23:10:53 +0200, "Jens Meyer" <coderacc at yahoo.de> wrote: >Hi, > >i installed CVSNT 2.0.43 on WinXP. >Installation was fine. > >But is it possible and than how, to connect to the cvs >server from internet ? >My friend use WinCVS 1.3 > >So what must i do to give him access to the repository ? >SSH is not neede, only simple access > >Jens > 1. The CVSNT server machine should run XP-Pro. Does it? XP Home is no good... 2. Configure your Internet firewall to map the port 2401 to the CVSNT server IP on your local network. 3. On the CVSNT server add an account for your friend. 4. On the friend's PC you do the following: 5. Open the Windows\system32\drivers\etc\HOSTS file in an editor 6. Enter one line with the following data: <Internet ip of CVS server firewall> MyCvsServer Note that the IP you have to enter is the address the CVS server *firewall* uses to access the Internet, not the IP of the server itself. Example: 62.73.84.95 MyCvsServer (of course you can use another name than MyCvsServer if you like) 7. Save the HOSTS file 8. Now open a command prompt and enter the following commands: set CVSROOT=:sspi:<accountname>@MyCvsServer:/<your_repository> here the <..> are placeholders for values you have to supply like: :sspi:johnd at MyCvsServer:/testrepo cvs login (now enter the password for the account) 9. If you got this far without errors you are now set up to access the server via the Internet. You can check if it works in the same command window as in step 8 (if you close it then you will have to re-enter the CVSROOT command since it is not persistent).: cvs ls CVSROOT This should list the files inside the CVSROOT folder that always exists in an initialized CVS repository. Note that the trick using the HOSTS file is done to make it possible to later change the IP address of the server if his ISP changes it. This happens when DSL users have DHCP to give them the IP. Also: the above requires that the cvs.exe program on your friend's PC is actually in a folder that is mentioned on the path. If it is not then you will have to modify the PATH variable to include the folder where the cvs.exe is located (it comes with WinCvs). /Bo (Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)