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

[Bo Berglund]

On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 09:04:55 +1000, "David Holmes"
<dholmes at --remove-this-part-dltech.com.au> wrote:

>"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.
>

Maybe this can be of help?:
http://cvsgui.sourceforge.net/newfaq.htm#remoteSandbox



/Bo
(Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)