I'm new to this list so please pardon my question if it has been seen 
before...

I've been using cvs on unix platforms for many years, but have just 
begun using WinCvs on a Win98 machine.

Under preferences, I've set up the CVSROOT as such:

"\\unixMachine\pathToCvsroot"

And Authentication to:

"Local mounted directory"

I know \\unixMachine is available via the network through the 
Solstice NFS client installed. I can easily browse the directory 
\\unixMachine\pathToCvsroot, add/edit files & directories without any 
problems.

Anytime I (and several others) try to check out a module I get:

NEW CVSROOT: \\unixMachine\pathToCvsroot (local mounted directory)
cvs checkout moduleName (in directory c:\MFC\SRC\LIBS)
cvs checkout: Updating moduleName
cvs checkout: cannot create read lock in repository 
`\\unixMachine\pathToCvsroot/libs/moduleName': Invalid argument
cvs [checkout aborted]: read lock failed - giving up

What am I doing wrong?

On another colleague's machine, configured exactly* the same as mine 
(same CVSROOT and Authentication), he can checkout, edit commit, etc. 
without any errors.

* Same OS, same version of WinCvs, same version of the Solstice NFS 
client, etc.




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