Re: Trouble running TortoiseSVN on Windows Server 2008

Ronald M. Slosberg wrote:

> Any help would be greatly appreciated…
>
>
> I have just installed SlickSVN 1.5 on my new windows 2008 box. I set up
> svnserve as a windows service. _I can do a checkout using “svn checkout
> svn://localhost/test c:\test” from the command line on the local
> machine_. However, when I try to connect to the same repo, also from the
> local machine using TortoiseSVN, I get “Can’t connect to host
> ‘localhost’: No connection could be made because the target machine
> actively refused it.” I’m running TortoiseSVN 1.5.3, Build 13783 - 64 Bit.
>
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> The fact that I can do the same operation that fails in Tortoise from
> the command line leaves me dumbfounded.

Try with your real ip (e.g., 192.168.2.3) instead of 'localhost'. If
svnserve was started with --bind, it will refuse connections on other ip
addresses than the one it was bound to.

Stefan

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