Yanglong Zhu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Jim.Hyslop wrote: > > >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? > > > No. The behaviour is the same whether using command line or the GUI. OK, that narrows things down - it means the problem is most likely in your local configuration.
> > >Is the > >Linux terminal also using pserver, or is it using another method? > > > > > Yes. Er, yes it's using pserver, or yes it's using another method? Can you provide more details about your Linux connection - the one that works? [retaining the rest of the message for the mail list's benefit] > > >[...] > > > > > >>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. > > > > > > > I checked the environmental variables many times, including username. > All (including cases) are the same as far as I know. > Obviously, what I'm > wondering about is that something (an env variable) somewhere > in winCVS > I don't know. Yet I cannot find. > > Again I did have connection one time before, even checked out > a module > successfully. Since I have problems, I uninstalled, and reinstalled > WinCVS. Still, I have no luck of success. I'm quite puzzled. -- Jim Hyslop Senior Software Designer Leitch Technology International Inc. (<http://www.leitch.com/>) Columnist, C/C++ Users Journal (<http://www.cuj.com/experts>) _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
