Re: user unknown to this system in Windows2000 when I commit

[Rob Helmer]

Hi Erik,


>From the info-cvs archives, maybe this can help :

http://www.geocrawler.com/mail/msg.php3?msg_id=8935061&list=382

I will say that you'd get better support if you run the server on a
Unix variant ( BSD, Linux, Solaris, etc ).

If you must run on Windows 2000, try CygWin : http://www.cygwin.com
It comes with cvs and a bunch of other Unix tools compiled for 
Windows.



HTH,
Rob Helmer



On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 12:58:39AM +0200, Erik Springelkamp wrote:
> (Error message more exact)
> 
> I tried to implement CVS on my machine under Windows2000.
> Everything works fine, but when I commit, I get the error:
> 
> C:\Work>cvs commit
> cvs [commit aborted]: your apparent username (Erik Springelkamp) is
> unknown to this system
> 
> I just use the command line with cvs.exe from version 1.11.2
> 
> Does anybody know of this problem and how to overcome it?
> (I like to use cvs from ant now for java development).
> 
> 
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> Erik Springelkamp
> http://springelkamp.nl/
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