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Thanks for your reply. It seems that all of my problems stemmed from my misunderstanding of how CVS works. I had read a few guides on setting it up, but stupidly, no guides on how CVS actually works. Bo Berglund wrote: > On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 14:34:53 -0400, Kris McCann > <kris at eoascientific.com> wrote: > >> I'm having a really hard time getting CVSNT running properly on my 2003 >> server. >> >> I have my a folder which contains all of my individual project folders, >> and I've made it my default CVS repository. > > That is not how CVS works at all. Have you read up on the very basics > concerning the repository files and how it relates to working files?? > > Repository: > Holds the RCS file database into which you are storing all of your > file edits and from which you check out the working file set to your > own PC:s hard disk. > Every RCS file holds the complete history of the corresponding normal > file. These files should *only* be accessed using the CVS server > calls, never be handled manually. > > Sandbox, project folder, checked out fileset: > Many names for the same thing, normal source files on a local PC > (normally completely different from the server PC) which have been > *checked out* from the repository via the CVS server. Metadata are > stored with the sandbox so that CVS knows from where these files came > and what revisions they are etc. > > How to get files *into* the CVS repository? > Definitely *NOT* by basing a repository on already existing normal > files somewhere! Files are put under version control by either > importing them to CVS or by cvs adding them in an already checked out > sandbox. > >> If I try and check out a subfolder, I get the error: >> >> cvs.exe checkout: in directory .: >> cvs.exe checkout: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading: No such file or >> directory >> >> I seem to be able to get around this by creating a new repository in the >> individual project folder that I want to check out, and now when I try >> to check >> out that folder, I don't get an error, and it looks like it's >> downloading the >> folder structure (no files though), then when it's done, it deletes all >> of the >> folders, and leaves me with the project folder, containing only a CVS and >> CVSROOT folder. > > Again this is not at all how CVS works. You should read up on the > basic level of how CVS works. A good place even though it deals with > the Unix view of things is: > > http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/cvsbook.html > >> The impression I get is that the server isn't correctly building the CVSROOT >> folders and indexing the files, but I'm new to CVS servers, I've only ever >> used it from the client side before, so I don't really know the details of >> how it should work on that side of things. >> > > I have a feeling you are confusing things big-time here.... > Maybe this can help on how to install a CVSNT server correctly: > http://web.telia.com/~u86216177/InstallCVSNT25.html > > But you also must get to grips with the CVS paradigm.... > > > /Bo > (Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)