Re: [Monotone-devel] Sync, write/read-permissions and port-binding in WinXP

[Daniel Atallah]

On Nov 14, 2007 10:40 AM, address@hidden 28 <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> I'm using Monotone v.0.36 and I'm trying to put my db to serve, so my pal can
> push in his parts of code.
> 1.We exchanged our pubkeys and added them to our dbs, then, being on
> Windows, I went to my Documents and Settings/User/Application Data/monotone
> folder and created the two files:

<snip />

> First question is: did I do this right? I'm not sure, because I only found
> one reference about this, around the mailing list. Official tutorial assumes
> we're not working on Windows.

There isn't anything about this that works differently on Windows.

> 2.Being my pal under a very strict school server (all ports closed), I try
> to make his data pass through port 8080 (I'm guessing it should be the only
> one open, but I might be wrong), doing:
> $mtn serve -d mydatabase.mtn --bind=:8080
>
> This way, if I'm right, I'm putting monotone listening to port 8080 on every
> host it has available.
> Monotone in fact asks for my password, then goes:
> mtn: beginning service on <all interfaces> :8080
>
> And my Winxp firewall tells me if I want to allow mtn network access, so I
> guess I did something right.
> Can anyone confirm I did both the steps right?

This sounds right to me.


> If so, not knowing what kind of command my pal used, I guess he did
> something like this:
> mtn push -d hisdatabase.mtn myIPaddress
>
> Is this also right, or are we missing something anyay?

I may be stating the obvious here, but is he doing something like the following?

mtn push -d hisdatabase.mtn myIPaddress:8080
(**note the port)

-D