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

[Matt Epstein]

BTW: Check your original thread. I think Bo just did a much better job than
I did in answering your original post.

-m

"Matt Epstein" <matt at fortissoftware.com> wrote in message
news:cm8sn5$r6g$1 at paris.nodomain.org...
> A little is better than nothing :)
>
> The hosts file trick is done on the client. I use XP so mine is located at
> C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc
> The file is just called hosts with no file extension. Open it with notepad
> and add a line with the IP address you need to use and then the
servername,
> e.g.:
>
> 123.456.789.1       CVSSERVER
>
> Yeah, I meant DNS on the Internet -- sorry I wasn't clearer. We actually
> don't have a registration for our cvs server, but instead have a catch-all
> registration for *.fortissoftware.com to point at our firewall. So when I
> use cvsserver.fortissoftware.com in my CVSROOT, it just resolves to our
> firewall -- which then forwards traffic on port 2401 along to our cvs
server
> inside our network.
>
> -m
>
>
> <david.arendash at manyone.net> wrote in message
> news:mailman.2405.1099428980.21094.cvsnt at cvsnt.org...
> > 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
> >
> >
>
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