Try to use pserver instead of plumpx01@plumpx01.
Regards,
Hilary
"Plumlee, Philip" wrote:
> [Might be a dupe - sorry.]
>
> I'm having a hell of a time connecting WinCVS 1.1b10 to CVS 1.10.8NT. Here's
> how to get where I am:
>
> 1> Grow up learning nothing about CVS except rumors of its awesomeness
> (shame on me!). (This implies I did not grow up pacing the growth of the
> system and therefor learning its bugs as they were invented.)
>
> 2> Grab a WinNT computer, and download CVS-NT from
> http://betty.magenta-logic.com/cvs/
>
> 3> Register it as a service, and plop in this Reg key:
>
> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\CVS\PServer]
> @="C:\\cvsroot"
>
> 4> Crack open a cold C:\cvsroot folder.
>
> 5> Install WinCVS, set the home directory to my project, log in with this
> connection string "plumpx01@plumpx01:c:\cvsroot", and set the protocol to
> "ntserver".
>
> 6> Try to push a file into the repository (WinCVS -> Modify -> Add
> Selection).
>
> 7> I get "Bad repository root '/cvsroot'"
>
> 8> Build a C:\cvsroot\cvsroot folder.
>
> 9> Try to push a file in.
>
> 10> WinCVS transcribes this:
>
> cvs add Epic.dsw (in directory C:\Epic)
> cvs add: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading: No such file or directory
> cvs [add aborted]: no repository
>
> Okay. I can deal. Go "Create a new repository" first.
>
> My connect string was working before, apparently. But now I get into a big
> argument like this:
>
> -----------------
>
> cvs -d :ntserver:plumpx01@plumpx01:c:\cvsroot init
> Protocol error: Root request missing
>
> cvs -d :ntserver:plumpx01@plumpx01:cvsroot init
> Bad repository root 'cvsroot'
>
> cvs -d :ntserver:plumpx01@plumpx01://plumpx01/diskc/cvsroot init
> Bad repository root '//plumpx01/diskc/cvsroot'
>
> cvs -d :ntserver:plumpx01@plumpx01:/plumpx01/diskc/cvsroot init
> Bad repository root '/plumpx01/diskc/cvsroot'
>
> cvs -d :local:plumpx01@plumpx01:c:\cvsroot init
> cvs [init aborted]: CVSROOT plumpx01@plumpx01:c:\cvsroot must be an absolute
> pathname
>
> cvs -d :local:plumpx01@plumpx01:\\plumpx01\diskc\cvsroot init
> cvs [init aborted]: CVSROOT plumpx01@plumpx01:\\plumpx01\diskc\cvsroot must
> be an absolute pathname
>
> cvs -d :local:\\plumpx01\diskc\cvsroot init
> cvs [init aborted]: cannot make directory Emptydir: Permission denied
>
> NEW CVSROOT: plumpx01:c:\cvsroot (NT server services)
> cvs add Epic.dsw (in directory C:\Epic)
> cvs add: in directory .:
> cvs [add aborted]: *PANIC* administration files missing
>
> cvs -d :ntserver:plumpx01:c:\cvsroot init
> Protocol error: Root request missing
>
> -----------------
>
> I have exhausted every e-search technique I know against these error
> messages, including grabbing and reading the source code. But, as I have
> followed all the out-of-the-box instructions closely I can't imagine I'm the
> first to get these errors. (BTW the drive surface is NTFS, and I'm in the
> ACL lists as its power-user.)
>
> Now that I'v trotted out the most newbescent FAQs possible about a CVS-NT to
> WinCVS combination, could someone either answer these questions, or direct
> me to documentation on the web (other than
> http://www.loria.fr/~molli/cvs/doc/cvs.pdf) that discusses CVS and WinCVS
> without assuming I already know everything about configuring them before I
> read the documentation?
>
> --Phlip
