Unable to checkout anything

Hello,

my company is evaluating GraFX CVS Lite for Dreamweaver at the moment.

Unfortunately the checkout does not work on our systems.

What we have configured is the following:
Protocol = :pserver:
Server = dserver
Port = (left empty)
Repository folder = /webapp_repository
Username = anonymous
Password = (left empty because no password set on pserver)
Module = testing_webapp
Local working directory = C:/work/cvs_projects

What we sent to CVS then via "Checkout" is according to the log:
cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@dserver:/webapp_repository checkout -d "C:\work\cvs_projects" "testing_webapp" >C:\work\cvs_projects\logsout.txt 2>C:\work\cvs_projects\logserr.txt

And this is what the server answered:
cvs checkout: Empty password used - try 'cvs login' with a real password
cvs [server aborted]: absolute pathname `C:\work\cvs_projekte' illegal for server

Exactly the same configuration works just fine in our Java based tools which are SmartCVS 2.3.2 Foundation and IntelliJ IDEA 3.0.5. I can checkout in SmartCVS without any problem.

What goes wrong here? Maybe our empty password is a problem? And why is the absolute pathname for our _local_ working directory illegal for the _remote_ server?

Anybody?

Best wishes

Ingo Hessing

The CVS for DW was tested with pserver. I tried this again on a public cvs server.
Please tell me if this works:
1) On the configuration window please enter the folowing settings:
Protocol = :pserver:
Server = cvs.sourceforge.net
Port = (nothing)
Repository folder = /cvsroot/zynaddsubfx
Username = anonymous
Password = (left empty because no password set on pserver)
Local working directory = any existing directory (eg: c:\temp)

2) On the CVS checkout window:
Please set the module (project) name to 'zynaddsubfx' (without quotes) and
the local working directory please set it to any existing directory
(recomanded is to be empty).

3) Please send us the commands any errors that might occur to it@grafx.ro

I have tried to connect and download per your suggestion on 01/09/2004... however, I get the following errors:

COMMAND SENT:
cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/zynaddsubfx/ checkout -d "C:\TEMP\cvs\zynaddsubfx" "zynaddsubfx" >c:/temp/out.txt 2>c:/temp/err.txt

CVS SERVER MESSAGES:
cvs [checkout aborted]: could not find out home directory

Any suggestions. I tried doing something very similar with our production environment (which also is a pserver), and I get the same error message.

1. Please see if you start from command line cvs.exe (start>run type cmd) then when you have command line, please enter "cvs --help" and see if you get back answer.

If yes go to step 2, if no add to your Windows path c:\cvsnt If is done, try again from Dreamweaver. If not work proceed to step 2

2. If you have PSERVER, please try to

a. Be sure that you have c:\temp directory.

b. On PSERVER with autentification, please don't use password from configuration, instead use when will be promted.

c. On REPOSITORY folder in configuration, please use ending slash.

3. If all fail, please try to reach us on it@grafx.ro to see if we can fix problem.

To fix this on the evaluation version... If you don't have one, specify a HOME environment variable as a directory . Manually login using the command line (this will put a .cvspass file in your $HOME or %HOME% directory). Restart CVSLite and it will use this .cvspass file and wow you now have a password.... they should be paying me for this stuff ;)

How much we should pay? :-)))))