yesterday I posted about how to get Windows Home Server to act as a SVN server over SSH. Well, after a lot of following steps, sometimes multiple times last night, I gave up and went to bed…

Then today, I decided to mess around a bit more, and found the following post on the TortoiseSVN site showing you how to get TortoiseSVN working over SSH. This is all well and good, but, at the end it didn’t work, and it got me a bit angry…

further searching helped me find this post by Rene Gourley (hope I pronounced that correctly…) explaining HOW TortoiseSVN uses Putty to get certs and connection info… This was the eye opener! I was putting the server name into my url (in my case svn+ssh://svn@tiernanohs/repository) where I should have been using the name I saved in putty (SVN) instead of the server name… TortoiseSVN looks for the session name, not the server name! Annoying, I will admit, but now its working!

now all I have to do is get it talking to the MacBook Pro and my MSI Wind, and poke some holes in the firewall and I can work remotely!