Re: Access Windows cvs server from linux client

[Mark D. Baushke]

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Yevgen <address@hidden> writes:

> i am not able to access the cvs server on a windows machine from my
> linux system. The Windows Path cause cvs to fail:
> 
>  > cvs -d:pserver:address@hidden:"D:/Projekt03/src" login

Try

  cvs -d :pserver:address@hidden:/D//Projekt03/src login

and you may find happier results. The trick is separating the
drive-letter and the rest of the pathname by two slashes.
> cvs login: CVSROOT may only specify a positive, non-zero, integer port
> (not `D:').
> cvs login: Perhaps you entered a relative pathname?
> cvs [login aborted]: Bad CVSROOT: `:pserver:address@hidden:D:/Projekt03/src'.
>  >
> 
> And if i put slash before "D:", so i get "/D:/Projekt03/src: no such
> repository" :( It is impossible to reconfigure the server or set the
> prefix for cvs-root on the server side. What can i do on the my side?

According to the manual:

  http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs-1.11.14/cvs_2.html#SEC26 

the general syntax for CVSROOT is

  [:method:][[user][:address@hidden:[port]]/path/to/repository

So you might also be able to use

  :pserver:address@hidden:2041/D:/Projekt03/src

and have it work, but I have not tried it.

        Enjoy!
        -- Mark

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