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If I research this list server using the www.egroups.com portal, I can't do
complex boolean searches. (The kind we programmers have found to be more
useful via www.deja.com than any other education technique anywhere.)
How do I search this group with a real query system and not a brute-force
text string search?
> From: Jonathan M. Gilligan
> If you're using the ntserver protocol, your connection string
> should be
> "plumpx01:c:\cvsroot"...
Did that.
> ..."cvs -d c:\cvsroot init"...
Did that.
> ...or the "Create\Create a new
> repository" menu command from wincvs.
WinCVS essentially says "you can't init because you did not init yet" here.
That's what drove me to the command line.
> For troubleshooting, you should make sure that you can make
> things work
> properly using the :local: protocol...
Did that.
> Also, the integration of ntserver with wincvs is very new and
> incompletely
> tested. It's more reliable to use either: (a) pserver connection from
> WinCVS or (b) ntserver connection from command-line cvs (the version
> distributed from Tony Hoyle's site at magenta logic).
We proudly run a Linux-free shop. And I used the command-line CVS to go
where WinCVS refused to take me.
> 1) Make sure your repository is properly initialized by using
> either WinCVS
> or commmand-line CVS under the :local: protocol.
>
> 2) If (1) works, then try an ntserver connection from
> command-line cvs
> (remember that the ntserver protocol DOES NOT use the user@host, but
> :ntserver:host.domain.com:c:\cvsroot" form)
>
> 3) If (2) works, then try an ntserver connection from WinCVS. If this
> fails, then set up a passwd file in c:\cvsroot\cvsroot and
> try a pserver
> connection.
>
> If (3) fails, then there is a probably problem with your server
> installation (most likely in the c:\cvsroot\cvsroot\config
> file or in the
> c:\cvsroot\cvsroot\passwd file).
I left all that in so potential searches can find it easier.
But what finally worked was "cvs -d :ntserver:username:c:\cvsroot checkout
." to "create the local CVS mirror files." I suspect that's not documented
anywhere, but I did not go crazy looking.
--Phlip
