Re: "cvs add" using the WinCVS 2.0.2.4 console

First off, I want to thank you for such a detailed followup.  But I 
do still seem to be running into some issues:

> However, if you go to a command prompt on your XP machine you can 
do
> this:
> 
> c:\>mkdir c:\projects
> c:\>cd c:\projects
> c:\projects>set CVSROOT=:sspi:cvsserver:/repo
> c:\projects>cvs co .
> 
> This will check out *everything* from the server into c:\projects,
> which is now converted to a "sandbox". Of course you will have to
> enter the correct CVSROOT string depending on your server 
settings...

This seems to be a bit of a catch-22.  If I cannot check anything in 
as a result of this particular configuration missing in my sandbox, 
how can I checkout anything?

In any case, I did as you suggested, but I'm getting these 
Permission denied errors (I'm a bit of a Linux newbie too...so bear 
with me.. :-)  )

cvs checkout: cwd=D:\data\cvsroot ,current=D:\data\cvsroot
? cvs_test
cvs checkout: failed to create lock directory for 
`/var/lib/cvsd/cvsroot/CVSROOT
' (/var/lib/cvsd/cvsroot/CVSROOT/#cvs.history.lock): Permission 
denied
cvs checkout: failed to obtain history lock in repository 
`/var/lib/cvsd/cvsroot
'
cvs checkout: Updating .
cvs checkout: failed to create lock directory for 
`/var/lib/cvsd/cvsroot' (/var/
lib/cvsd/cvsroot/#cvs.lock): Permission denied
cvs checkout: failed to obtain dir lock in repository 
`/var/lib/cvsd/cvsroot'
cvs [checkout aborted]: read lock failed - giving up

Now, for the heck of it, I went in and basically granted every 
permission under the sun to these directories (for security reasons, 
probably NOT the best idea), but still no luck.
 
> After this you will have the following directories there:
> c:\projects
>   |--CVS
>   |--CVSROOT (with the cvs server administrative files)
>       |--CVS
> 
> Both CVS subdirs will contain at least the files:
> Root
> Entries
> Repository
> 
> This is where cvs keeps the data used for "normal" cvs commands 
like
> cvs add.

Yes, I'm aware of these directories and their contents..just haven't 
gotten to that point yet.  ;-)

Thanks much!