Help for creating new module with secure shell

[Ragothaman]

I have installed cvs on Linux and Tortoise-CVS on windows client.
Since I wanted password authentication, I used the secure shell to
connect to server.
Now, I am able to checkout existing module from CVS. 
However, when creating new module, I am getting the following error:

In C:\DOCUME~1\RAGOTH~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\TortoiseCVS make new module
temp\: "C:\Program Files\TortoiseCVS\cvs.exe" "-q" "import" "-m" ""
"Apache" "tcvs-vendor" "tcvs-release"
CVSROOT=:ext:address@hidden:/usr/local/cvsroot

No conflicts created by this import

Success, CVS operation completed

In D:\: "C:\Program Files\TortoiseCVS\cvs.exe" "-q" "checkout" "-d"
"Apache" "Apache"
CVSROOT=:ext:address@hidden:/usr/local/cvsroot

cvs checkout: cwd=D:\ ,current=D:\
cvs checkout: in directory .:
cvs [checkout aborted]: CVS directory without administration files
present.  Cannot continue until this directory is deleted or renamed.

Error, CVS operation failed

Error, one of the CVS operations failed

The /usr/local/cvsroot is the cvsroot for this operation and it
contains the directory CVSROOT and  modules.

Please tell me where I have gone wrong.

Thanks
Ragothaman. P