[cvsnt] Re: Another newbie question: numeric ip address

[david.arendash at manyone.net]

Helps a little.

I'm pretty lite on server stuff anyway.

When you say 

>hardcoding my server's name into my hosts file along with the public IP

how is that done, and is it on client, server, or both?

>registering the server in DNS 

Do you mean the internet DNS at large, or the DNS stuff you find
in NT/XP networking setup, and again, client, server, or both?

Thanks again

Dave A.

On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 15:52:17 -0500, Matt Epstein wrote:

>Hi Dave,
>
>I just got my remote access working recently over :sserver. I couldn't use
>:sspi unless I VPNed to our corporate network. However, I am using my domain
>account to authenticate because aliased my domain account into the passwd
>file using:
>
>cvs passwd -a -D <domain name> <real account name>
>
> So you should be ok over sserver regardless of whether you use a cvs
>username or a domain username.
>
>Regarding the servername issue, I was initially able to connect by
>hardcoding my server's name into my hosts file along with the public IP
>address I need to use to hit it from remote location. That way my CVSROOT is
>exactly the same as it is when I am local to the server, but the system
>would resolve it to the public IP address that I needed to use from remote
>location.
>
>Eventually we ended up registering the server in DNS so that the name would
>resolve to the correct IP address so now I just use cvsserver.mydomain.com
>as my servername in CVSROOT.
>
>I hope that helps a little.
>
>-matt
>
>
><david.arendash at manyone.net> wrote in message
>news:mailman.2403.1099426662.21094.cvsnt at cvsnt.org...
>> So I finally got CVSNT + Tortoise working for me on my LAN,
>> where I can specify the computer's name as the server name,
>> ex: :sspi:CVSserver:/cvsnt/archive
>>
>> and connect, since I have the same user/password on both client
>> and server.
>>
>> Now I want to access remotely. I opened ports 2401 and 2402 in my
>> firewall to that servermachine. I can obtain the mostly-static IP
>> address. But when I go remote, I only know (for example):
>>
>> :sspi:123.321.255.64:/cvsnt/archive
>>
>> In other words, no domain or machine name.
>>
>> Suggestions? Would a different protocol work? I tried ext and sspi
>> and pserver, they all fail, generally saying 'server actively rejected
>> access'
>>
>> Thanks
>> Dave A
>>
>> "Some men see things as they are and say why? I dream things that never
>were and say "Why not?" -- Robert Francis Kennedy
>>
>> "Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world;
>> indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
>> --Margaret Mead, anthropologist
>>
>>
>
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"Some men see things as they are and say why? I dream things that never were and say "Why not?" -- Robert Francis Kennedy

"Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world;
indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
--Margaret Mead, anthropologist