The files are going to be things like AutoCAD drawings.  So unless something 
dose layer and dif checking on that, I think any version controller that tells 
us who had what last and if their is a conflict when checking in, will do just 
fine.  And I figured CVS had been around long enough support should not be an 
issue...  

Thanks for the links, I will report back and let you all know how they like 
their first taste of Linux ;)


Quoting Alan Dayley <alandd@consultpros.com>:

> > 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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