read lock failed

[Iqbal Shaikh]

Hi all,

We need some help related to access rights to cvs subdirectories.

We have got  a huge tree in the CVS Repository
and we have given  specific group access  to specific  subdirectories.

What we need is  though some users do not belong to  some groups,
they should be able to checkout files from any subdirectory  to view,
but should not be able to  checkin.

( when a user doestnt belong to the group and   tries to  checkout files from that subdirectory
he gets an error:
cvs server: failed to obtain dir lock in the repository
cvs [server aborted] : read lock failed , giving up.

Can any one please help.

Thanks and Regards
iqbal