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RE: Cvs connection : UNKNWN HOST
From: |
McCann, Brian |
Subject: |
RE: Cvs connection : UNKNWN HOST |
Date: |
Mon, 21 May 2001 11:37:13 -0400 |
Werner,
Could you post the string your using for CVSROOT? It's under Admin-->WinCvs
Preferences.
General tab
--Brian
-----Original Message-----
From: David Fuller [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 9:31 AM
To: Werner Müller
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: Cvs connection : UNKNWN HOST
I haven't had that problem with IP addresses for several versions of
WinCVS, since 1.0.2 I think. Try updating to the 1.2 version of WinCVS
which works much better than any of the older versions.
-- David F.
Werner Müller wrote:
>
> Okay,
> it might work if you use servername instead of IP number of Server.
> also you can try to activated LMHosts (System->network->WINS-address)
>
> It seems Cvs needs to have names instead of ip-numbers (don't ask me
why). I
> don't know how the underlying function gethostbyName() works, but it
seems it
> works right with LMHosts activated
>
> Strange anyway ....
>
> Werner
>
> Werner Müller schrieb:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'd like to connect from my CVS Client on NT to CVS Server on Linux, but
i
> > always get the message "Unknown host" .
> > Both computer are in the LAN.
> > And i even can connect from another NT Client to the CVS Server.
> > Does anyone know where this problem comes from? Or which configuration
files i
> > may have to check.
> > Anyway i'm wondering that i couldn't find this error in the docs ..
> >
> > cu
> > werner
> >
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