can't log into cvs

[kaycea]

Hi all,

Is anyone else out there having problems logging into cvs? I am using WinCVS with the following settings:

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Authentication: pserver
Path:               /cvsroot/celestia
Host address:  cvs.sourceforge.net
User name:     anonymous
CVSROOT:      anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/celestia


Under login settings, I have "Force using the CVSROOT" checked.

This is the output:

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CVSROOT: anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/celestia (password authentication)
cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/celestia login
Logging in to :pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:2401:/cvsroot/celestia
cvs [login aborted]: connect to cvs.sourceforge.net:2401 failed: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.

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


Any suggestions would be appreciated!

[selden]

I use the command-line version of cvs that comes with Cygwin, the Linux environment for Windows.

I had no problems accessing the anonymous cvs server just now.
Here's the script that I use for getting updates. The only obvious difference is that I use .sf. instead of .sourceforge. I doubt that's the problem, though. More likely they were in the middle of rebooting the system when you tried to access it.

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#!/usr/bin/sh -x
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sf.net:/cvsroot/celestia login
cvs -z 3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sf.net:/cvsroot/celestia checkout celestia/$1


[kaycea]

Apparently, the missing link was going into WinCVS and setting up the proxy server for my LAN.

I can log in just fine now. Thanks for your help!