RE: how to connect to svnserve? what's the URL?

Brian,

It depends on what mechanism you actually want to setup. Nice thing about
SVN is its fairly flexible.

Setting svnserve up as a daemon itself provides little "protection",
authentication or encryption. Don't make the mistake I did of getting one
system up and running without assessing the actual needs..

Ask yourself this:

- Will sensitive documents be stored here? (Any legal requirements
to encrypt/protect - English Data Protection Act can come into play here).

- Is the network secured (LAN & WAN) ? Does it need to be? Are you
concerned about anyone snooping the network? If it isn't, then do you need
to ensure the data transfer is protected?

- Will it be accessed outside of the company (shared with partners
etc)

SVN can work with SSH, Apache (HTTP + HTTPS). All of which have pros/cons..
See the book for details on each.

Adrian Marsh