Re: CVS with cvsroot on a samba mount

[Derek R. Price]

Don't need it right away, myself, but I'm cc'ing the list so this information is
archived and available to others.

Thanks.

Derek

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Frank-Michael Moser wrote:

> Last night, after rebooting the NT machine
> several times I got the solution:
>
> There are two switches in the smb.conf you need:
>
>    writable = yes
>    delete readonly = yes
>
> After restarting the smbd (and the NT machine ;-)
> everything works fine now and you don't need to
> change permissions in your CVS root like
>
> "Rick Stone" wrote:
> > Having said that, I think what I had to do was make sure
> > that the CVS user had "write" permission to the entire CVS
> > repository directory tree.  After that, the problem went away.
>
> I hope this will be helpful for you, too.
>
> Frank-Michael.
>
> "Derek R. Price" wrote:
> > Sorry.  No new solution.  Like I said the first time through, the easy 
> > answer
> > is in switching to pserver mode and the second best probably lies in 
> > figuring
> > out which flags need to be changed on the SAMBA server to allow CVS to 
> > operate
> > properly across the share.  You might be better off with pserver anyhow.
> > Other problems may decide to rear their heads later, due to, say, EOL
> > conversions or whatever, and may turn out to be more subtle and harder to 
> > fix.
> >
> > Of course if you want to do the testing & debugging, we'll read all the 
> > advice
> > you can send.  :)
> >
> > Derek
> >
> > --
> > Derek Price                      CVS Solutions Architect ( 
> > http://CVSHome.org )
> > mailto:address@hidden     OpenAvenue ( http://OpenAvenue.com )
> > --
> > A mathematician is a blind person in a dark room looking for a black cat
> > which isn't there.
> >         - Charles R. Darwin
> >
> > Frank-Michael Moser wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > sorry for cantacting you directly.
> > > I found an message posted by you
> > > in an archive:
> > >
> > > > > I tried tagging my src directory.  It complained, saying something
> > > > > like:
> > > > >  Cannot do 'WinUtil.h, --> WinUtil.h,v .   WinUtil.h,v already exists.
> > > >
> > > > I've seen something like this using samba to access a repository on a
> > > > remote machine.  The problem seemed to be a symptom of the operations
> > > > samba would and wouldn't allow across the share.  I ended up switching 
> > > > to
> > > > pserver after a couple of hours of trying to figure out samba config
> > > > files and realizing that if I DID find the answer I was going to have a
> > > > hell of a time persuading the sysadmin team that the settings should be
> > > > changed.
> > >
> > > Do you know, may be, any solution by now,
> > > so please let me know.
> > > Otherwise trash my mail.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Frank-Michael.