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FYI: To enable ports for windows firewall . Select Exceptions tab & open TCPIP ports 2401 & 2402. Not sure if 2402 is required at all, I added it for for compleness. "Mark" <lists at mark-arnold.net> wrote in message news:mailman.21.1143921536.312.cvsnt at cvsnt.org... > > Hi, > I am having big-time problems getting cvsnt to do anything. > After first trying to get it set up with Eclipse without success, I > tried to connect the regular commandline cvs client to the server - no > success either. > Both server and client are running on the same machine. > I use version 2.5.03 (Scorpio) build 2260, which I just downloaded > today (4/1 -hope this is not some f..ed-up version someone uploaded as > april-fools joke???). > Here is what I do: > C:\Program Files\CVSNT>set > CVSROOT=:pserver:mark at localhost:/cvsrepo > C:\Program Files\CVSNT>cvs login > Logging in to :pserver:mark at localhost:2401:/cvsrepo > CVS Password: > cvs [login aborted]: Error reading from server localhost: -1: > Unknown error > This same error message comes back no matter what command I try, "cvs > info", for example returns the same "Error reading from server > localhost: -1: Unknown error". > The repository exists and looks like it was created properly. > I tried connection to the server using "telnet localhost 2401". The > connection gets set up, and as soon as I type the first character, it > gets closed with some weird looking character (it looks just like two > cursors that remained on that line. The next line is my regular DOS > prompt. > When I use the "CVSNT control panel" to stop the CVS server and then > try connecting, the connection times out, so it must be CVSNT that is > listening to this port... > Any idea??? > Thanks > MARK