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Hello, folks. Thanks for answering my questions earlier on comparing CVSNT to Subversion. I've got a couple of other questions, if you'd be so kind once more: I built the current release version of CVSNT on Solaris, using gcc (from the blastwave.org archives.) I've had trouble setting up the lock server, however. To test things out, I have followed the instructions here: http://www.cvsnt.org/wiki/InstallationLinux and put cvspserver in inetd.conf, launching cvslockd by hand as root. I did cvs init to create the repository, then copied over part of our current CVS archive. I was able to check things out easily. I think this has created a permissions problem, however, since when I try to check in a change from TortoiseCVS I get an error about not having permission to alter a lock file. I'm just running as a pserver (eventually, we want to set up Samba and authenticate against the Windows domain, but for now I'm just working off of the NIS users). I see during the check in that cvsnt is running as my user -- is this the problem, that cvslockd is creating things that only root can change? Can I solve it by changing the permissions in my cvs repository, or by launching cvslockd in a different manner? My second question relates to something I see on the march-hare website. It mentions as a feature of the Professional package the ability to store repositories on a SAN. My above tests are all on a local drive, but our IT department wishes to store the source code repository on a SAN, or at least on NFS. (Pardon me, I'm a little fuzzy on the specifics here.) I believe they are using some sort of virtualization. Am I right that I would not be able to store my CVSNT repository on a networked filesystem without purchasing your folks (no doubt exemplary) Professional software and support? Thanks, folks.