[Samba] Problem with CVS working over Samba

[Geert Stappers]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 05:37:39PM -0600, Chris Cejka wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> Currently I'm using Samba as a bridge between my Unix files and my windows
> XP client and it works just fine.  But I'm having a problem with using CVS
> on my Windows XP client.  I don't want to have two separate copies of my
> source files - one copy on my unix box and another copy on my Windows XP
> client and use CVS to manage two copies of the same sources in different
> locations.  I'm using Samba to solve this issue.  In other words, I want the
> source files to reside in one location period!  That location being on my
> unix box.  The problem I'm having is with CVS on the Windows XP client.
> When I do a CVS update on my Windows XP client that is mapped to my unix
> files via Samba I get the following error:
> 
> 
> cvs update: in directory .:
> 
> cvs update: ignoring CVS/Root because it specifies a non-existent repository
> /home/dev/cvs
> 
> 
> Please note that I have the CVSROOT environment variable set on my Windows
> XP client to the following:
> 
>  
> :pserver:ccejka at rafiki.mcilink.com:/home/dev/cvs
> 
> 
> Anyones help would be greatly appreciated!


Do a checkout on the Unix box with the same CVSROOT 
as on the other client.

> 
>  
> Thankyou,

Let us known if it helped?

> 
> Chris


Cheers
Geert Stappers


P.S.
Did http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2005-August/110168.html help?
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