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Bo: Thanks for your help. When I upgrade, would you recommend 2000 Pro or XP Pro? I understand that it will work on either, but if there's a horrible problem with CVSNT on one of them, I'd like to know. Thanks again. "Bo Berglund" <bo.berglund at telia.com> wrote in message news:8gid901j8r57j26jgb2goltgvl2hr8mkd3 at 4ax.com... > On Mon, 3 May 2004 14:19:18 -0700, "Magnus McElroy" <foo at you.com> > wrote: > > >Hello, group: > > > >I'm trying to set up a CVS server and repository. The computers will all be > >Windows-based, including the server. It's running Win XP Home. The computers > >in question are able to connect to each other through the LAN; it's not a > >physical problem. > > > >I am able to use CVSNT to create a respository and access on my local > >machine. Yes, I know that I'm strongly discouraged from doing this, but I > >don't have the resources to get a new server just for the respository. I am > >unable to use a remote machine to check out anything. I get the errors: > > > >cvs server: Error connecting to localhost: No such host is known. > >cvs [server aborted]: Couldn't connect to lock server. > > > >The errors are identical on WinCVS and Tortoise CVS.Both the CVSNT and CVSNT > >Locking Service services are running. On the repository machine, I can check > >code in and out, no problem. When using any other machine, I get this error. > >Clearly, I have set something up incorrectly, but I can't figure out what it > >is. Please don't tell me to ask my System Administrator - it's me (by > >default), and I already know what I'll say. Can you help me out? > > > >Thank you. > > > > One of your problems are already listed in your description: > You run the CVSNT server on XP-Home.... > Microsoft has crippled XP-Home such that it does not really allow > people from outside to access any server functions on it. > You need to upgrade the operating system to XP-Pro, then it will work > as expected. > Running the server on a workstation is OK, normally you should not do > it, but as long as you keep your clients away from direct access to > the repository files it'll work just fine. But needs XP-Pro... > > > /Bo > (Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)