cvs checkout: warning: unrecognized response `'ssh'

oohay1_2005 wrote:
> is it only me or what? but it's been a nightmare
trying to use Wincvs
> to checkout/tag/branch the past days... i could
checkout stuff okay if
> ran cvs from dos command prompt, but trying to do it
from wincvs i get
> numerous errors below. please help how to checkout /
branch from
> wincvs? thanks.
> 
> cvs -d pserver:Administratorlocalhost:/_cvsRep/
checkout --

Not sure why this leads to the specific error message you
report but one 
thing that's definitely wrong about that commandline is
that there is a 
colon character missing in front of the protocol prefix.
Your CVSROOT 
should read:

:pserver:Administratorlocalhost:/_cvsRep/



Furthermore, if you are connecting to a local server on
Windows (I 
assume it's CVSNT?) why do you use that awkward :pserver:
protocol? The 
more natural choice would have been :sspi:, e.g.:

:sspi:localhost:/_cvsRep


Also see the Flash tutorial I created some time ago:

http://people.freenet.de/ogiesen/wincvsnt-tour-readme.
html


Hope this helps.

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--- In cvsgui@yahoogroups.com, Oliver Giesen <ogware...>
wrote:
...
> Furthermore, if you are connecting to a local server on
Windows (I 
> assume it's CVSNT?) why do you use that awkward
:pserver: protocol? The 
> more natural choice would have been :sspi:, e.g.:
> 
> :sspi:localhost:/_cvsRep
> 

I also get errors with sspi protocol:
cvs -d :sspi:localhost/_cvsRep login 
Logging in to :sspi:Administratorlocalhost:2401:/_cvsRep

***** CVS exited normally with code 0 *****

cvs -d :sspi:localhost/_cvsRep checkout -- /_cvsRep/pstr/
(in
directory E:\_cvsWorkDir)
cvs [checkout aborted]: Absolute pathname `/_cvsRep/pstr/'
not allowed

***** CVS exited normally with code 1 *****

I just happen to use pserver protocol more since other
repositories
that I get sources from uses pserver.





 
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