Configuring a CVS server on Win XP Pro
A quick guide written mainly to help me set up the CVS server if ever something happened to my current installation. It’s not complete and might not apply to you, but might help you out if you’re also looking for a relatively secure, internet-accessible CVS setup on an XP Pro box. I opted for using CVSNT with sserver protocol.
- Download CVSNT
- Run installer, following this tutorial
- I removed simple file sharing as instructed by the tutorial but did not start messing around with user accesses/priviledges and it still worked fine.
- Follow the tutorial instruction to the letter, using the sserver protocol.
- I created 2 Windows users using the Computer Management administrative tool, as shown in the tutorial, and then linked the cvsuser account to 2 different CVS users with CVS aliasing (
cvs passwd -r -a ) - I created a folder on my desktop and Using TortoiseCVS I created a new module and entered my CVS server’s info.
- Voila, it worked!
- Consider using a fixed IP to allow Internet access, or use something like no-ip.org.
- Open up TCP port 2401 on your router to allow remote access