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> The protocol depends on your environment. On Windows sspi is safe and
> simple. pserver is simple too. local is only for local repositories
> (local hard disk).
>
>> Is it true, that changing the protocol later on is painful?
>
> Not at all. WinCVS has a macro to handle it in a simple way.
Does the change of protocol only concern the sandboxes or are the CVSNT
options and/or the repository affected too?
>
>> FYI, I have WinXP on my main machine, where the repository
>> supposed to be. I would like to access the repository from this
>> machine as well as from my Win2k laptop (using mainly the Tortoise
>> CVS client on both of them).
>
>
> Setup the main machine as a CVSNT server. Then from both you could
> access the repository via sspi or pserver.
I finally managed to do that! I made some mistakes I want to share here
for future reference:
* WinXP's firewall was blocking the port. I had to allow a exception
for TCP port 2401, or disable the firewall entirely.
[Do I need to open port 2402 (lock server) too?]
* I used the "physical" path of the repository rather than the name of
the repository on the client side
* I had to enable authentication. Tortoise CVS requires this.
In the CVSNT control panel I set "Encryption" to
"Request Authenication"
Before doing that, I always got the following error:
cvs_encrypt_wrap_input failed
I hope this piece of information is useful for some other newbie.
Thanks for your help, Luigi!
-Sacha