RE: Setting up svnserve as a Windows Service to work through a router.

Thanks for your help Si,

Here's the solution to my problem (in case anyone else has it). Essentially
yah, it was a firewall problem. I used tcpview (it's free to download, just
search for it) to trace what connections were coming into my computer. So
with svnserve.exe setup to --listen-port=3690, I did indeed see a request
initially come in on port 3690 but then I think it either tried to maybe
spawn svn.exe on another port (something in the range of ~1860) or just pass
the initial request off to svnserve on another port (in the range ~1860). So
rather then forward a whole bunch of ports, I went into Local Area
Connections -> Advanced -> Firewall -> Settings -> Exceptions and added
svnserve.exe as an exception. So now my firewall doesn't block connections
for this program. That seemed to clear everything up. I got into my
repository and browsed it from a work computer. Thanks again for the hint
si.

Cheers,
Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: si [mailto:sshnug.si@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 12:10 AM
To: Christopher Erven
Cc: users@subversion.tigris.org
Subject: Re: Setting up svnserve as a Windows Service to work through a
router.

Hi Chris

> "Connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly
respond after a period of time..".

That's not the normal error message if svnserve isn't running, typically
it's:
"Can't connect to host 'blah': No connection could be made because
the target machine actively refused it."

I assuming you can work ok with the repository on the server itself?
i.e. repo-browse svn://localhost/Repos

If so, any chance you have a firewall that's not allowing outbound tcp
on port 3690?

The rest sounds ok and i've had the same setup working in the past.

peace
si

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