On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 2:15 AM, Christian Busch <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hello user group,
>
> I have an issue with unc pathes on a windows machine.
> My fossil version is: This is fossil version [6502627a3e] 2011-02-08
> 12:52:37 UTC
>
> Is there any known restraint regarding unc pathes on windows?
>
> I tried the following:
> I had a repo on my harddisk drive C, cloned it to a file server using the
> unc-path \\server\path\subpath\repo.fossil
>

I'm not real clear exactly what a unc-path is, and it is a reasonable guess
that I don't have the hardware/software at hand to test any changes that
might be made to support them.  So I'm going to be looking to the windows
experts on this list to suggest patches for fixing this.


> This worked perfectly.
> Then I made changes in the local repository and I tried to push these
> changes into the remote repo on the file server and I get this error
> message: fossil.exe: server sends error: >repository does not exist or
>  is in an unreadable directory: /server/path/subpath/repo.fossil
>
> The error message "changed" backslashes to slashes and skipped one
> backslash before the server-name.
>
> It is possible to start the local server with the remote repo and push the
> changes using http://127.0.0.1:8080/ but not directly with the file path.
>
> Anybody has the same experience? Should it be possible to do this or do I
> have a comprehension problem?
>
> Thank you for any feedback.
> Regards, Christian
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