On windows, you may have to specify the port in some other manner. You're just trying to see if you can open a connection to port 2401, and the telnet comand's an easy way to do that - especialy with a protocol that's easily human readable, like CVS.
Either way, you'll proably get a "connection refused" message, which will tell you that you need to find out which of the acces control methods on the server is rejecting the connection (ipchains/iptable, tcp wrappers, etc). --Danny Hill, Benjamin W said: > That gleans the same result as a: "telnet [SERVERNAME]". > > Cheers, > > Ben > > -----Original Message----- > From: Danny Sauer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 06 June 2003 17:38 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: Hill, Benjamin W > Subject: RE: Help: Linux CVS Server Access Problem > > > You might try (from the client machine that's having problems): > > telnet [SERVERNAME] 2401 > > If that works (ie, it doesn't reject your connection), try typing > > BEGIN VERIFICATION REQUEST > /cvs/repository > username > password > END VERIFICATION REQUEST > > Hit return (yes, forcefully strike the key) after each line. It should > tell > you that it hates you, and close the conenction (because the password > isn't > properly encrypted and you hopefully don't have any user called > "username"). > > You probably will get stopped at the telnet part, though, since you > probably > have something rejecting connections on the server box. Check to see that > xinetd isn't set up to block connections from hosts other than localhost, > and that tcp wrappers (if used) isn't rejecting connections to the CVS > service. Make sure that the LISTEN entry in netstat is listening on all > relevent addresses (probably *:cvspserver), too. > > --Danny > > > Hill, Benjamin W said: >> Hi, >> >> I have been through the troubleshooter, but not found anything I >> haven't tried. >> >> When I try to connect to the server from a Windows machine using: >> >> set cvsroot=:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/repository >> cvs login [USERNAME] >> >> ..I get the line: >> >> "CVS password:" >> >> ...but when I enter a password I get: >> >> "cvs [login aborted]: connect to [SERVERNAME]([SERVERNAME]):2401 >> failed: No connection could be made because the target machine >> actively refused it." >> >> I have checked that the cvspserver file is in /etc/xinetd.d and that >> there is a LISTEN entry when doing a netstat. _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
