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On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 09:04:55 +1000, "David Holmes" <dholmes at --remove-this-part-dltech.com.au> wrote: >"Bo Berglund" <bo.berglund at telia.com> wrote in message >news:bg26p0hqc3bfkeampvdvm081ta3lurv1a5 at 4ax.com... >> It's because sandboxes on network shares has been a *not supported* >> configuration for a long time now. Not worth bothering or even trying >> to help. Too many problems and is against the operating paradigm of >> CVS. > >Thanks for the response, though I don't understand your comment. I have a >network drive that is shared and accessible from any of the Windows boxes I >login to. On that drive I maintain a check-out from a linux hosts cvs >repository. That all works fine. No general problems working on a network >and I can't see what "CVS paradigm" this could possibly be breaking (that >would be like saying that I can't do a checkout onto a NFS mounted drive in >Unix). The only problem I have is that if the network share is operating in >offline mode then cvsnt won't work. And in the case of my laptop, if I'm >travelling OS then I'm in offline mode even when connected to the internet. > >I would have expected this to just work "out of the box" - to cvsnt it >should look like a normal bunch of files in a normal directory. Now >obviously that is not the case, but I don't understand why. > Maybe this can be of help?: http://cvsgui.sourceforge.net/newfaq.htm#remoteSandbox /Bo (Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)