Authentication Failure

Im sure this question has been answered in a way that make a difference for
my implementation, but I am unable to find it. I have worked all day and
haven't been able to get past the results of the first 10 minutes.

I am running the svnserve daemon on one machine, ip=...30 and am tryint to
access it from another machine with ip=...25

Both machines are running OpenSUSE 11.2 and the svn system on both machines
comes from their repository of applications.

the group svn has been created and the user svn was also created.
svn and solomon are all in the svn group

the issue is when I attempt to run
svn import /solomon svn://...30/mooky/solomon

I get the the message
svn: Authentication failed

when I run this command I am logged in as solomon on the machine with ip
address ...25

On the server I am running the init.d/svnserve deamon with
./svnserve start

The config file has the following properties

[general]
anon-access = read
auth-access = write
password-db = /mooky/passwd
authz-db = /mooky/authz
realm = mooky

The passwd file is
[users]
solomon = foobar

and the authz file is
[groups]
developer = solomon
[/mooky]
@developer = rw
* =