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Vaibhav Raina wrote: > Our location of CVS Server has changed to a new IP. I am trying to change > this IP setting through CVS ROOT Macro. I have given the new IP and the > console is showing the changed messages. But when I am trying to update a > file or checkout a module I am getting the following error message: > > cvs server: connect to 172.18.18.29(172.18.18.29:2402):2402 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. > > Here 172.18.18.29 was our previous server IP. And this shows that the effect > is not taking place. Sometimes I am also getting the error message as > “absolute path” for the server should be used. Can anybody help as I am not > able to connect to the CVS Server. I am using WinCVS client. Can you show us your old CVSROOT, your new CVSROOT, and the content of the file Root inside the CVS directory of the sandbox directory from where you ran the test? Other things you can try: - Can you ping your new server? - Can you run a command like "cvs -d <your new CVSROOT> ls"? It should list all the top level modules. Gerhard