svnserve connection issues

I installed svn on FC5. Created a new repository and imported my
project. I started svnserve -d and I can see it running. When I try to
check my project out using TortoiseSVN I get this error:

Error: Can't connect to host '172.16.102.177': A socket operation was
attempted to an unreachable host.

The checkout url is "svn://my.ip.address/QA/docs"

When I connect to the box svn is on, I use ssh. So, I tried changing the
url to "svn+ssh//my.ip.address/QA/docs". This brings up a login box with
a username of "@my.ip.address" and asks for a password.

When I used CVS, I had to set a few environment variables...is there
something similar with svn that will make this login prompt have a real
username in it?

Any help will be appreciated
Received on Wed Sep 20 19:45:34 2006