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On Sun, 4 Sep 2005 13:24:58 -0400, "Worth Robbins" <wrobbins at macoun.com> wrote: >I am probably missing something basic. > >I have installed cvsnt 2.5.02.2064 on a virgin WindowsXP/sp2 box, with Which kind of XP? CVSNT will only work as a server on XP-Pro, XP-Home is not usable due to Microsoft limitations in the networking part. >static ip 192.168.0.5. I have also installed TortoiseCVS-1.8.18 on the same >box. I have the service running, and I have successfully connected with >Tortoise and been able to create and populate a new module. The connection >string locally is: > >:sspi:localhost:2401:\cvsrepo, and the module is cvstest. This is a bad choice of repository name! You should *never* use backslashes! Should be :sspi:localhost:2401:/cvsrepo instead! > >I have also installed same version of Tortoise on another XP box on the same >network, also static, 192.168.0.4. Both boxes are members of the same >domain. When I try to connect from the other box, logged in as a domain user >with domain admin privilege, with a connection string of: > >:sspi:192.168.0.5:2401:\cvsrepo You don't need to specify port 2401 like this, it is the default and it only clutters up the connection string if you do. But you need a forward slash... :sspi:192.168.0.5:/cvsrepo > >after 10-20 seconds, I get an error messaage "connect to 192.168.0.5:2401 >failed: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not >properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed >because connected host has failed to respond". 1) You are using XP-Home. This will fail! or 2) You have enabled Windows Firewall on the server PC. In this case you must open the TCP port 2401 for incoming connections /Bo (Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)