Concerning Re: Newbie questions
Ben Collins-Sussman wrote on 19 Jul 2003, 7:17, at least in part:
> "Sindbad the Seafarer" <sindbad.the.seafarer@gmx.net> writes:
>
> > B)
> > I could successfully create a repository on a network drive mapped
> > to my local machine as N:\ (both running Win2000). But then mkdir,
> > import, commit etc. commands failed. I suppose this is the expected
> > behaviour as according to the book file:///drive:/path shall work
> > only locally. However, under Windows mapping a network drive to the
> > local machine *shall* treat this drive just as a local drive, thus
> > leaving all network stuff to the OS.
>
> Is this really the case? file:/// won't work on SMB-mounted drives?
> Why is this thus?
I see I made a mistake here: import works with file:///drive on a
mapped drive. BUt the other commands (commit, checkout,
update) do nothing. You see at the lights of the switch that the
command passes into the network, but then nothing happens.
Neither there is a return to the command prompt. Waited several
minutes, but the thing was dead and I hit CTRL-C to get back to
the prompt. Maybe because on the other machine Subversion is
not set up yet? That would be far more strange. (I am starting
things slowly, first trying all things on one machine only, if things
go wrong others would not be put out of work. Only had been
curious about mapped network drives ...)
Jan Hendrik
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@subversion.tigris.org
For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help@subversion.tigris.org
Received on Sat Jul 19 18:34:10 2003