[cvsnt] Re: offline folder can't be updated when offline, even though server online

[David Holmes]

"Bo Berglund" <bo.berglund at telia.com> wrote in message
news:bg26p0hqc3bfkeampvdvm081ta3lurv1a5 at 4ax.com...
> It's because sandboxes on network shares has been a *not supported*
> configuration for a long time now. Not worth bothering or even trying
> to help. Too many problems and is against the operating paradigm of
> CVS.

Thanks for the response, though I don't understand your comment. I have a
network drive that is shared and accessible from any of the Windows boxes I
login to. On that drive I maintain  a check-out from a linux hosts cvs
repository. That all works fine. No general problems working on a network
and I can't see what "CVS paradigm" this could possibly be breaking (that
would be like saying that I can't do a checkout onto a NFS mounted drive in
Unix). The only problem I have is that if the network share is operating in
offline mode then cvsnt won't work. And in the case of my laptop, if I'm
travelling OS then I'm in offline mode even when connected to the internet.

I would have expected this to just work "out of the box" - to cvsnt it
should look like a normal bunch of files in a normal directory. Now
obviously that is not the case, but I don't understand why.

David Holmes