Hi folks,
Thanks, Greg, for your reply.
On 9 Mar 00, at 11:46, the Illustrious Greg W. Moore wrote:
> Paul,
> Since it appears that no one has responded yet I'll tell you what
> I've learned after a similar fail attempt. Just for the record my
> setup is similar wincvs 1.1b8 on NT4.0 SP 5. On the Unix Side the
> repository resides on a Solaris 2.6 box
>
> At 07:35 PM 3/6/00 -0800, Paul Garceau wrote:
> >Greetings,
> >
> > I have followed the instructions (faqs) at WinCVS.org
> > to the
> >letter,
>
> its a good document. Who ever wrote it. Thanks it was a lot of
> help
I agree. It is just frustrating when it doesn't work.
>
> > I am using WinCVS version 1.1b11 on an NT4 platform.
SP6
> I've generated the identity files both on the unix side as well
> as on the NT side (using f-secure) and used F-Secure 1.1, TTSSH
> 1.51 (tera term with the ssh extentions) and from ssh 1.2.22 from
> ftp://ftp.cs.hut.fi/pub/ssh/contrib/ I tried several others too
> and they either didn't support command line operation or
> whatever. I read somewhere the win32 ssh-keygen was brain dead so
> for most of the tests I used the keys generated on the Solaris
> box then ftp'd to my intel box
I was able to find some documentation that got ssh-keygen to
work on the NT4 side...it required adding -C<email address> to
the ssh-keygen command line. After -C<email address> was added,
the key generation worked fine.
>
> Without going through WinCvs I can connect to our Solaris box via
> ssh with any of the above mentioned software
I believe the system I am connecting to is a Linux box.
> > CVSROOT is set in WinCVS Admin|Preferences|General. Admin
> > at
> >repository assures me that I am authorized write access.
> >
> > Authentication is set to SSH.
> >
> > WinCVS login attempts yields:
> > > Set the password authentication first in the preferences !
>
> I'm not sure if its needed but on the NT side I set the ssh
> environment vars and CVSROOT=:ext:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/repodepot and
> made sure that ssh was in the path. The unix side was set up
> according to the wincvs document.
Ok, changed the CVSROOT in WinCVS to reflect what you suggest.
Currently it appears that the checkout is working...though until
I have a valid checkout, I can't say this with certainty.
>
> so what happened....
> Even though every thing was set up properly at least as far as I
> could tell. Wincvs would spawn ssh in a dos box and then hang...
After including your suggestion, I have the exact same thing
occurring...my IP address is dynamically assigned by my ISP.
When you mentioned "blindly typed in my password", how are you
accomplishing this? Do you type it into the dos box?
>
> now the odd part is that a work associate got this all to work
> just fine on and fairly easily the difference being that he has a
> static IP address and my isp uses dynamically assigned IP
> addresses.
Every little bit helps...I'm assuming your ssh connection is
working, and that is encouraging...I had all but given up hope
that I would ever be able to use SSH authentication from NT4.
>
> I not sure if that helps much Paul but if any one out there knows
> if dynamic IP address cause problems with ssh please let me know.
I'd appreciate finding this out as well.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Greg,
Thanks again, Greg. I really appreciate your reply...I had
begun to wonder if there was any value to subscribing to the
info-cvs mailing list...
Peace,
Paul G.
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Nothing unreal exists.
