Thanks for the advice Bo. I did read most of the posts you mentioned here.
As a payback :-) I could tell you how sspi seem to really work as long as you confine yourself to the command line interface. Here is what I did to make this work: 1. On the server side, I did not do anything since changing the config/SystemAuth=no flag does not have anything to do with the sspi protocol (that is my conclusion only, I did not see that written anywhere). 2. On the client side I simply set the CVSROOT environment variable: CVSROOT=:sspi:server_id\user_id@domain_id:c:\CVS_ROOT This seems simple, if you want to use the domain server for the authentication, since you do not do deal with any password files at all. I do have a problem trying to use jCVS as the graphical front end, since it seemingly supports only the "pserver" mode, so it might expect some password file which I did not (intentionally) defined. I would appreciate if anyone can explain a bit more about "sspi" protocol, though. Nik -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 1:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cvsnt] (maybe not so) newbie question Suggested reading: http://www.devguy.com/fp/cfgmgmt/cvs/ http://www.devguy.com/fp/cfgmgmt/cvs/cvs_admin_nt.htm#CVSWEBIIS http://www.cvsnt.org/pipermail/cvsnt/2002-March/004046.html I use various combinations of CVSNT and WinCvs versions in different installations and all work very well. We use ntserver authentication in all of these, basically because sspi was not available at the time we installed everything. But I hear that sspi is really the protocol to use instead of ntserver now. HTH /Bo On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 18:03:19 +0000 (UTC), "Ivancic, Nikolaj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >This is a multi-part message in MIME format. >-- >[ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] >Hello, all > >I did a relatively thorough job scanning the archives (I did not find >any searching tools), and failed to find a definitive answer to >something that should be on the first page of the most basic document. > >Here is the problem: given two machines on a LAN (SERVER and CLIENT), >what are the steps necessary to establish the connection between the >two. In order to avoid any conditional answers, I will restrict this >situation further, stating that both machines run Windows 2000 (server >and workstation editions) and that both use domain server for Windows >authentication. > >So far I followed the instructions written in the document >http://www.cvsnt.org/readme.nt and failed completely. Assuming that >amongst you there will be a good soul to bail me out, I will indicate >here what went wrong: > >1. On the SERVER machine, I did what the instruction tell me: > >1. Installation of the CVS server > >If you are using the precompiled version installation is simple - just >click on the cvsnt_1.11.1.3.exe installation program. > >To setup the server use the cvsnt control panel to install the service, >then add the locations of your repositories. > > > Note that the installation failed in that it required to me add the >path Environment variable > to the CVS installation manually. > >2. On the CLIENT machine, I simply used the CVS.EXE from the above >distribution > >If you are using an NT or Windows 2000 client, use is preferable to use >the cvs.exe supplied, as this is full version which supports all >features of the NT server. > > >3. To verify authentication, I concluded that the best thing to do is >to use the SSPI mode so: > a) On the SERVER machine, I set the repository path (C:\CVS_ROOT) >as instructed by 1. above. > b) on the CLIENT machine, I set the Environment variable CVSROOT to > > CVSROOT=:sspi:lumicyte\nivancic@SERVER:c:\CVS_ROOT\CVSROOT > > c) any CVS command executed on the CLIENT, like: > > c:\>cvs history > cvs [history aborted]: : Authentication failed > >Any suggestions? Use pserver? Use ntserver? Why if yes? > >Thanks in advance > >Nik > > >-- > >_______________________________________________ >Cvsnt mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cvsnt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvsnt /Bo (Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden) _______________________________________________ Cvsnt mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cvsnt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvsnt _______________________________________________ Cvsnt mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cvsnt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvsnt