[cvsnt] CVS and Firewall

Arthur Barrett arthur.barrett at march-hare.com
Wed Jun 11 00:17:52 BST 2008


Al,

> I have never been able to get CVS to work with either the XP 
> or Vista Firewall. Even though I have added the exception for 
> CVS.exe to the firewall, it takes a long time to complete any 
> operation with the firewall enabled. However, if I disable 
> the firewall, it completes almost instantaneously.Do I need 
> to add any other exceptions (other than for CVS.exe) in the 
> Firewall? I tried opening ports 2401 and 2402 but that did 
> not help either.Thanks.

Please send the exact command you are typing that takes a 'long time' on
the client, preferably a checkout command showing the CVSROOT, eg:
cvs -d :pserver:user at host:/repo checkout fred

Please also provide details as to which XP of Vista you are using (ie:
is it XP Home?) and as much information as you have about the server (is
it CVSNT, is it in the same building, is it windows or linux etc).

Regards,


Arthur



More information about the cvsnt mailing list