Trouble in checking out from remote CVS server

[feng]

Hi,

I'm having trouble checking code out of a CVS server using the
WinCVS. 
Running from a terminal connected to the server, everything seems 
okay: I can import, checkout, update, commit. Using the WinCVS,  I
can 
also login, import, but I can't checkout anything!

The CVS pserver run on a Slackware 7; the pserver being started with 
the following command:

  /sbin/tcpserver -v -u0 -g0 0 2401 /usr/local/bin/cvs \       
     --allow-root=/works/CVS pserver 2>&1 | /sbin/splogger cvs 3 &

The error message is as follows:

  cvs -z9 checkout -P multifretes (in directory E:\HOME\feng\projetos)

  cvs server: cannot open /root/.cvsignore: Permission denied
  cvs checkout: in directory multifretes:
  cvs checkout: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading: No such file or 
 
directory
  cvs [server aborted]: can't chdir(/root): Permission denied

  *****CVS exited normally with code 1*****

Could anyone help me to put this thing working?

Feng <address@hidden>