CVS + SSH Connection refused

[Bitter, Ingmar (NIH/CC/DRD)]

Hi,

I just moved my CVS repository to a Suse Linux 9.2 server.
It runs

cvs -v
Concurrent Versions System (CVS) 1.12.9 (client/server)

When connecting to the server I now want to use ssh. I can ssh to the server
from several machines using public/private keys in my .ssh directory.

On my Windows clients I use cygwin and CVS 1.11.17 and connecting to the
repository works.

On my beowulf cluster login node the installed system CVS is 1.11.1p1 and
doing a 'cvs up' or any other cvs command results in:

cvs -d :ext:ibitter@xxx.xx.xx.xxx:/raid/cvsrepo up
xxx.xx.xx.xxx: Connection refused
cvs [update aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages if
any)

However, just typing 'ssh xxx.xx.xx.xxx' does get me logged on to the cvs
server without complains.

Can this be fixed with that version of cvs or do I need to ask the beowulf
system staff to update the cvs client?

Thanks,
Ingmar