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Hi, I have downloaded CVSNT a couple hours ago, have read the manual and followed a couple of tutorials I could find on the Internet, but neither could help me set up a CVS server on Windows XP. I actually want to access the CVS on a small LAN to write a project with a couple of people, and we would all be using Eclipse IDE to access it. We would like to use pserver since we don't want to install ssh or anything that complicates things, and we don't need security cause, as I already said, this is on a local network so no one's going to hack us :) So this is what I've done: 1) First I've downloaded and installed the latest CVSNT. During installation it said that it failed to start the cvslocks service, but as far as I figured this is not essential to running the CVS. I restarted the computer. 2) After restarting, I openned the CVS control panel and there I could see that the CVS service is already running, while the CVS lock service isn't. So anyway, I set the repository configuration: Server name: localhost Name: /cvs Root: /cvs The directory got initialized, I now have a CVSROOT directory at C:\cvs. I also set the CVSROOT environment variable to C:\cvs After this I tried adding a user. My account number on Windows XP is 'Pista', so I tried cvs passwd -r Pista -a Pista Entered a password and that's it. 3) Now I wanted to test this. I started Eclipse, openned the CVS Repositories perspective, and openned the Add new dialog. I entered the following data: Connection type: pserver User: Pista Password: ********* Host: localhost Repository path: /cvs [x] Use Default port 4) This was ok, so now I tried accessing the HEAD, just to see if it works. I got an error message saying "Socket Exception: Connection reset" This means that it tried to access the server. If I write something other than localhost then it would say "Host not found", so obviously it does try to accedd the server. I checked on which port the CVS server is listening to, and it's the default 2401. I tried setting this manually in Eclipse but this didn't produce any results either. 5) The server does seem to work, however. I tried committing a test directory using WinCVS, and after typing cvs ls -l -R in the command prompt, it listed out the contents of the test directory. However, I specifically need to set Eclipse to work with CVSNT, and I don't see a reason why it doesn't work specifically with this one, since it already works ok with two other CVS servers (over the internet) which also use pserver. Could someone help me set up CVSNT properly? I'm not an expert on CVS so please keep this in mind :) Waiting for your reply, Csaba