odd error

I am trying to import data from a remote machine to a svnserve proccess running on machine tippu. Both machines are win2k and this is the following command and the message i get.

C:\working\Development>svn import svn://tippu/subversionrepo --message "inital d
ata"
svn: Connection is read-only

On the server i started it with the svnserve -d process.
Are there any other setup or paramaters i need to look at to get this to work correctly?

Thanks,
Daniel Schulken

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