On Aug 29, 2011, at 14:42, this_thread wrote: > I have several SVN repositories on an Windows network fileshare. The user has > full control, read, write, and just about every other permission that can be > added. When trying to commit he gets the error: > > Can't open file '//fileshare/svnrepos/projectname/db/txn-current-lock': > Permission denied > > It's being accessed via file:///, which I know is badbadterrible but I don't > know how else to set it up given I am not an admin and this fileshare is all > we have available. > > I've dug around a bit and been told I need to be using snvserve, but we > don't have svnserve running on the remote share. I can try executing it from > my machine but it just hangs, never prints anything. I can't install or > really do much to the remote machine. > > I know it would be better to have this on an svn server, but to get this up > and running in the mean time, what do I need to look at? (And ideally, how > could I get an svnserver going? Would I need to talk to some of the admins > that take care of that share?) Short term just getting it to where he can > commit now, long term being the svnserver..
You need a server running svnserve, or apache with mod_dav_svn. Don't pursue doing this with a normal file server.
