On Oct 14, 2011, at 05:04, Markei54545 wrote: > When I add a project to Subversion, it asks for the repository URL. It > will accept the name of a local test repository that I created (c: > \zip) but will not accept the name or (path or unc or mapped drive) to > the repository on the server. > > I can't use an subversion service on the server as it is already being > used by developers on a different platform, and we want to keep them > apart, so I am trying to access the repository directly.
Set up a subversion server process, either svnserve or apache2 with mod_dav_svn, on the server. Don't attempt to access a repository through a file sharing connection. It's not supported because it is problematic for a number of reasons so I won't help you set such a thing up.