Re: problem with connection using pserver

[Derek R. Price]

Neal Bradford wrote:

> I am having a problem connecting to the cvs with the pserver. I get
> the error, connection refused.  We use cvs running under freebsd unix
> (i am not sure about the version) and we the client is wincvs version
> 1.2. I started having problems connecting when I tried to diff a file,
> with win-cvs, that was already being used by my editor. Win-cvs was
> configured to use an external diff tool, examdiff. Win-cvs complained
> that the file was being used by another application and then I started
> having problems connecting on the server. It should be noted that I
> have the same client program running on another machine and I can
> connect, check out files, diff files jus fine. Any ideas? thanks,Neal

If you can get there from another machine, then most likely you are
dealing with either a firewall problem or your local repository really
isn't pointing to the same server like you think it is.

See if this helps:

    http://cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_21.html#SEC182

Derek

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