Unable to connect to a repository at URL Putty works fine

[Ulrike Löber]

Dear all,

I migrated my repo from one server to another, so far so good. The new server is only reachable via vpn, and it does using putty without problems. Anyways, trying to check out the repo using Tortoise fails everytime given the error "Unable to connect to a repository at URL". Interestingly, this happens at the third attempt of authentication every time. I even tried to use a key pair for connecting to the server. Works fine with putty, same error for Tortoise.

Does anyone have an idea what could cause this issue? 

Thanks in advance

[Ulrike Löber]

Tortoise v 1.10.0.28176

svnadmin, version 1.6.11

[Alastair Growcott]

I have what may be the same problem.

When you say "it works using putty without problems" do you mean using plink instead of TortoisePlink?

If you use TortoisePlink from the command line, does it work?

For me:

• I am only using a key pair.
• I can get it working with a Subversion command line tool.
• Neither plink nor TortoisePlink work (configured in TortoiseSVN network settings).
• When using TortoisePlink on the command line with the same options as I configured in the TortoiseSVN network settings, I get a sane response.