> What are the pros and cons of running a CVS server on NT ? > > We have mainly Windows CVS clients. > As opposed to the alternative of running a server on Linux or *BSD?
I'd rather not get into OS wars, but Linux is more often reported as stable and reliable than NT, and certainly takes fewer machine resources of its own. This may or may not be a concern. While you're likely more familiar with NT than Linux, it's easy to set up a Linux box running CVS, so that's probably not an important concern. I'm not an expert on CVSNT (see http://www.cvsnt.org, I believe), but AFAIK it supports pserver and ntserver modes. The pserver mode does not do any sort of reliable user authentication, and should not be used except by trusted people over secure communication lines. The ntserver mode is like pserver, but uses NT authentication, which probably means you can't use it if you have any non-MS clients (and you said you had "mainly" MS Windows clients). In addition, I saw a comment about not wanting to expose NT authentication to the Internet; I don't know how applicable that would be. CVSNT also seems to be more interested in making changes to the server, whereas the CVS developers seem to think that CVS is a mature product, and needs only minor improvements. If you like the newer CVSNT features, this is a point in its favor; if not, I would imagine that CVS is more stable and hence more reliable. If you're running some Unix CVS clients, or have any clients outside a secure firewall, I'd recommend a Linux CVS server. Other than that, look at cvsnt.org and see what they have to offer. (They have their own mailing list; you might ask the same question there.) David H. Thornley | If you want my opinion, ask. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | If you don't, flee. http://www.thornley.net/~thornley/david/ | O- _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
