Yanglong Zhu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> WinCVS newbie here. I can login to the CVS repository from
> Linux terminal fine. But cannot figure out a way to connect
> to CVS repos from winCVS 1.3.13 or 1.3.14 on a XP box.
Can you use the CVS command line client successfully on the XP box? Is the
Linux terminal also using pserver, or is it using another method?

[...]
> When I supposedly supply everything correctly to winCVS, I will get 
> 
> cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/path/to/CVSrootDir login 
> Logging in to :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:2401:/path/to/CVSrootDir
> cvs [login aborted]: cvs: no such user
> Fatal error, aborting.
Double-check that the CVSROOT environment variable on your Linux terminal
matches the one on the XP box. In particular, make sure the case of the user
name is the same - if it's YangLong on the Linux box, then you'll get the
error.

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