Re: Can't checkout to my C: root directly *PANIC* Admin Files Missing

[S I]

Thank you for your help.

I searched the cvshome.org last week and found what it seemed, that couple 
of developers were talking and threading about this; yesterday, my search 
was not successful and I could not relocate that page again.  I wish I had 
bookmarked it.   Their site is NOT very intuitive in my opinion.  Thanks 
again

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Subject: Re: Can't checkout to my C: root directly *PANIC* Admin Files 
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Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 19:23:35 +0200
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Hello,

* On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 09:51:50AM -0700 S I wrote:

> I don't have this problem on WinNT, however, only on WinXP or Win2003
> servers.

Well, ok. I use my XP (SP1) box (with a self-compiled cvs 1.11.17 on
cygwin), set the paths correctly for accessing CVS and SSH, and tried it
myself:

C:\>cvs co PROJECT

(The server is a Linux box, cvs 1.11.20:) The checkout worked flawlessly.

Thus, I still vote for the permissions problem. ;-) At least, I do not
have an idea what else might be the problem.

Remember: On Windows, the administrator does not have unlimited rights
like on unix-style machines. You might not have the right to create
directories in C:\ itself?


I'm leaving the rest for the mailing list; perhaps there will be someone
who has an idea and can jump in?

> I do have full admin access and what I discovered after I posted
> to the mailing list was that
>
> On XP/2003: If my project does not exist at the root, cvs co -P proj
> succeeds, however, if the proj already exists, cvs checkout does not word
> and produces the errors I mentioned.
>
> On NT: If cvs checkout detects the project already exists, it does an
> UPDATE instead.
>
> In both cases, I'm connecting to the main repository on the linux server.
> This is a weird behavior I've not seen before.  But thanks for your help.

Regards,
   Spiro.

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