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Thanks for the reply, how secure is the sspi connection? Xiao --- Bo Berglund <bo.berglund at telia.com> wrote: > On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 03:22:59 -0800 (PST), Xiao > <xsi_m at yahoo.com> wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >I got the following setup: a cvs server (pc1), main > >network server (pc2) and a pc on the internet(pc3). > > > >pc3 can only connect directly to pc2 never to pc1, > but > >pc2 can ofcourse connect to pc1. So how can I setup > >pc3 using wincvs to connect to the cvs repository > on > >pc1? > > > > Set up a port forwarding rule on pc2, which forwards > port 2401 to pc1 > on the internal network. > Then on pc3 you add an entry in the HOSTS file as > follows: > <IP address of pc2> <name of pc1> > example: > 123.111.222.011 cvsserverlocal > > Then in pc3 you use the following connection string > for CVSNT: > :sspi:user at cvsserverlocal:/Repository > (where you replace the names appropriately) > > Now you must (ONCE ONLY) execute the cvs login > command and give the > password for the user you have specified. > > What happens here is that pc2 receives the call from > pc3 on port 2401 > and forwards it to pc1, which processes it in the > same way as if the > call had been made locally on the internal network. > The reply goes to > pc2 which forwards it over the Internet to pc3. > > Note that you must use the user at server type syntax > because the Windows > authentication does not work automatically in this > situation. > By setting the HOSTS entry like above you can easily > switch pc3 to > work internally by simply changing the IP address to > the internal IP > of the CVS server if pc3 is moved to be inside the > local network. For > example if it is a laptop that travels. > > > /Bo > (Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden) > _______________________________________________ > cvsnt mailing list > cvsnt at cvsnt.org cvsnt downloads at march-hare.com @CVSNT on Twitter CVSNT on Facebook > http://www.cvsnt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvsnt https://www.march-hare.com/cvspro/en.asp#downcvs > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail