Connection refused

[Radha Krishna]

> Hi,
> I failed in establishing the connection between the CVS1.11 Server which i
> installed on Linux(Kernel 2.2.16-22) and WinCVS1.2 Client which i
> installed on Windows98. Whenever i try to login from WinCVS1.2 to CVS1.11
> server, iam getting the following response.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -----------------------------
> CVSROOT: :pserver:address@hidden:/home/cvs111 (password
> authentication)
> TCL is *not* available, shell is disabled
> cvs login 
> (Logging in to address@hidden)
> cvs [login aborted]: connect to 200.200.200.140:2401 failed: Connection
> refused
> 
> *****CVS exited normally with code 1*****
>  
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -----------------------------
> Iam unable to find out the exact error, where it is happening? Please
> shred some light on me. Here iam giving the steps that i have followed in
> configuring the CVS1.11 Server on Linux and WinCVS1.2 Client on Windows
> 98.
> 
> Configuration of CVS1.11 Server on Linux (Kernel 2.2.16-22):
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 1) Logged in as root and created an username "cvs111"
> 2) Logged in again as user, cvs111, and run the following command to
> create the CVS repository at /home/cvs111.
>       $cvs -d /home/cvs111 init
> 3)Manually I have created a passwd file called passwd in
> home/cvs111/CVSROOT and added the following single as the entry in the
> passwd file which allows the user cvs111 without the password.
> cvs111 :
> 
> 4)I added the following line in the /etc/inetd.conf file
> cvspserver stream tcp nowait root /usr/bin/cvs cvs -f
> --allow-root=/home/cvs111 pserver
> 
> 5) And also added the following line to /etc/services
> cvspserver 2401/tcp
> 
> After adding these lines i have restarted the Linux system in order to
> reflect these changes in the run time environment of the system.
> Here iam giving the file/dir permission  details of CVS Server on Linux
> also:
> 
> drwxrwxrwx    6 cvs111   cvs111       4096 Jan 27 18:38 cvs111 (Here
> cvs111 is /home/cvs111 which is my username and also the respository)
> drwxrwxr-x     3 cvs111   cvs111       4096 Jan 27 18:38 CVSROOT
> 
> 
> Configuration of WinCVS1.2 Client  on Windows98:
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> 1)In the WinCVS1.2 client, i have given the CVSROOT as
> :pserver:address@hidden:/home/cvs111 at Admin-->Preferences-->General
> and mentioned authentication process thru "passwd" file on the cvs server.
> 2) Now i tried to login to Linux CVS server thru Admin-->Login. But the
> got the repsonse which i mentioned in very above and also mentioning below
> and thus failed to log on to the cvs server thru WinCVS1.2 client.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -----------------------------
> CVSROOT: :pserver:address@hidden:/home/cvs111 (password
> authentication)
> TCL is *not* available, shell is disabled
> cvs login 
> (Logging in to address@hidden)
> cvs [login aborted]: connect to 200.200.200.140:2401 failed: Connection
> refused
> 
> *****CVS exited normally with code 1*****
>  
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -----------------------------
> 
> Even i haven't seen any cvspserver daemon running on the Linux server.
> What is the problem?  
> 
> Please help..............
> Thanks in advance,
> -Radha