> Well, I have been an accountant at my new job for just about a week and
> a half  and I have convinced them to drop an FTP site in favor of a CVS
> server running  on Linux.  Having never actually set up a CVS server can
> some one point me in  the rite direction of setting up and securing?
> Since they are all windows  users I was thinking of integrating tortoise
> into MS Explorer for use as their  client; any thoughts?

You might want to provide us some "general" details about what you are
wanting to version control.  There may be a better tool than CVS depending
on what types of files and what the usage actually is.

Assuming CVS is the right tool for the job...

All things CVS start a http://www.cvshome.org.  Get Webmin on the Linux
server.  It makes CVS server configuration and admin much easier.

We use http://wincvs.org/ for Windows clients but it is a standalone app
as opposed to Explorer integrated.  I have not used Tortoise but it is
well known and appears supported well.

> Can you do CVS over SSH or is that redundant?

CVS does NOT provide any significant security so, no, it is not redundant.
 This looks like a very brief howto without much explanation:

http://www.devguy.com/fp/cfgmgmt/cvs/cvs_ssh.htm

This focuses on WinCVS on the client but may also help your client setup
efforts:

http://www.bsdconsulting.no/wincvs-ssh/

Someone should have something similar written for Tortoise but I'll let
you find that one.  ;^)

Alan



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