Re: pserver login problem to Linux from Win2k

[Mike Ayers]

Kaz Kylheku wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Steve deRosier wrote:
>
>
> > Here's what is happening:
> > 1. J: is a networked drive connected to my home directory on our Linux
> > server via Samba
>
> You can't do that, because Linux and Windows don't agree on the
> representation of text files.  This affects the treatment of text
> documents on update and commit, and also the representation of the CVS/
> administrative files.

	Also, you should always use native drives both for your sandbox and 
repository.  Generally speaking, networked drives within their native 
systems (NFS across Unix clones, SMB between Windows boxes) can be 
considered native.  Anything that crosses OS architectures (especially 
Unix/Windows) is bad.

> So even if you solve the location non-transparency problem by using
> a CVSROOT that works everywhere, you still have this problem.
>
> > New question:  Is there an easy way to fix this problem, so I can
> > transparently use CVS in the same working directory both remotely and
> > locally?

	This is not a "problem", so much as an architectural fact.  Unix and 
Windows do not agree on what constitutes a text file.  It is 
impossible for them to work together without some sort of intermediary.


/|/|ike