Re: Cvs connection : UNKNWN HOST

[David Fuller]

I haven't had that problem with IP addresses for several versions of
WinCVS, since 1.0.2 I think.  Try updating to the 1.2 version of WinCVS
which works much better than any of the older versions.

-- David F.

Werner Müller wrote:
> 
> Okay,
> it might work if you use servername instead of IP number of Server.
> also you can try to activated LMHosts (System->network->WINS-address)
> 
> It seems Cvs needs to have names instead of ip-numbers (don't  ask me why). I
> don't know how the  underlying function  gethostbyName() works, but it seems 
> it
> works  right with LMHosts activated
> 
> Strange anyway ....
> 
> Werner
> 
> Werner Müller schrieb:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'd like to connect from my CVS Client on NT to CVS Server on Linux, but i
> > always get the message "Unknown host" .
> > Both computer are in the LAN.
> > And i even can connect from another NT Client to the CVS Server.
> > Does anyone know where this problem comes from? Or which configuration 
> > files i
> > may have to check.
> > Anyway i'm wondering that i couldn't find this error in the docs ..
> >
> > cu
> > werner
> >