subversion via cifs is not working

Question

I am trying to use subversion on a linux machine, the repository is on a Microsoft sbs2008 server. (I can access the repository from a Microsoft Windows 7 machine.) Can some

Answer 1

This is not so much an answer as a few questions for you to mull over.

Why do you assume that this will work? The cifs file system driver exposes the NTFS file system in such a way that you, in the worst case, can only read files. The functionality exposed by the cifs driver has to have a matching functionality in the NTFS end of things.

So, if the, by SVN, needed functionality is either unimplemented or unsupported you might very well end up with a problem like this.

I'd suggest looking at the cifs documentation and check for known limitations or ways to tweak the driver to, perhaps, offer more functionality.

And, of course, you need to check the ACLs of the exported NTFS file system. If this operation is supported by the cifs driver and should work, it will still fail if the NTFS file system has the wrong owner or a read only bit set.