central cerver help please...

[Oguz Altun]

Robert Collins wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 16:07 +0200, Oguz Altun wrote:
>   
>> I have been using bzr locally for a while now (on winXP, bzr that comes 
>> with cygwin). For a project I want to set up a bzr server. And give my 
>> friends permissions, etc. Supposedly bzr must be real easy to set up in 
>> that way, but I am having all kinds of problems. The server must be my 
>> same winxp-cygwin machine.
>>
>> So I set up a simple sftp server (freeftpd), then I downloaded and setup 
>> camino and the crypto modules, checked that I can sftp, mkdir, and put 
>> to server. But when tried to push my local repository with sftp:
>>
>> $ bzr push sftp://localhost
>> oguz at localhost's password:
>> Hello, I'm freeFTPd 1.0bzr: ERROR: Permission denied: 
>> u'.bzr/branch-format': [Errno 13] Permission denied
>> Connection to localhost closed by remote host.
>>     
>
> Can you mkdir '.bzr' using sftp by hand ?
Yep:

$ sftp localhost
Connecting to localhost...
oguz at localhost's password:
Hello, I'm freeFTPd 1.0sftp> pwd
Remote working directory: /
sftp> ls
yazdiklarim
sftp> ls -al
drw-rw-rw   1 root       root             0 Feb 23 14:55 .
drw-rw-rw   1 root       root             0 Feb 23 14:55 ..
drw-rw-rw   1 root       root             0 Feb 23 15:48 yazdiklarim
sftp> cd yazdiklarim
sftp> ls -al
drw-rw-rw   1 root       root             0 Feb 23 15:48 .
drw-rw-rw   1 root       root             0 Feb 23 15:48 ..
sftp> mkdir .bzr
sftp> ls -al
drw-rw-rw   1 root       root             0 Feb 24 15:01 .
drw-rw-rw   1 root       root             0 Feb 24 15:01 ..
drw-rw-rw   1 root       root             0 Feb 24 15:01 .bzr
sftp> cd .bzr
sftp> ls -al
drw-rw-rw   1 root       root             0 Feb 24 15:01 .
drw-rw-rw   1 root       root             0 Feb 24 15:01 ..
sftp>

And the same error above is given when I try again. Even after I chmod 
777 all the dirs in ftproot.

>> So I tried bzrtools with rsync.
>>
>> $ rsync localhost:benchmark/* .
>> ssh: connect to host localhost port 22: Connection refused
>> rsync: read error: Connection reset by peer (104)
>> rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at 
>> /home/lapo/packagi
>> ng/tmp/rsync-2.6.6/io.c(584)
>>
>> I guess rsync needs ssh to be installed.... I couldn't manage to setup 
>> the openssh on cygwin ...
>>     
>
> rsyncd will work.
>
>   
>> I need directions here. Does anybody use a windows-cygwin box as a 
>> server? How do you do it? Tutorials etc? thanks.
>>     
>
> Not offhand, but its doable I'm sure. Lets try to debug the sftp issues
> though, as thats probably the better one to be using long term.
>
> Rob
>
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