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On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 00:24:02 +0100, Tony Hoyle <tony.hoyle at march-hare.com> wrote: >Bo Berglund wrote: >> Strange, when I access CVS on my PC I never use anything but my own >> login (except for testing). For example like this on a command >> prompt: >> c:\>set CVSROOT=:sspi:polaris:/Bosse > >> But when I change to the fully qualified server name I get another >> behaviour: >> c:\>set CVSROOT=:sspi:polaris.agiusa.se:/Bosse >> c:\>cvs ls >> cvs [ls aborted]: authorization failed: server polaris.agiusa.se >> rejected access to /Bosse >> >> As it happens the WorkSpace Viewer sets the computer name without any >> possibility of change by the user and it fails. > >It grabs it from zeroconf. Shouldn't make any difference really.. I'm >not sure why it does on some networks (doesn't on mine... I can access >any server with either). My network is a home network with just workgroup computers, no domain, if that might be the difference... > >> The extra domain value (agiusa.se) was added by me when I started the >> new PC a few months back to reflect the connection with the main >> domain. However there is actually no such domain registered anywhere. >> Is this the problem? > >As long as ping works then it'll find it, in theory... I'm guessing some >kind of misconfiguration that isn't handled - if I could repeat it I >could work out what triggers it and work around it. > >Does netdiag (in the support directory of your Windows CD if it's not >installed alreadt) give any clues? Have to find that then... /Bo (Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)