Tortise SVN Multiple users experiencing error checking out repository

Question

Several users of an SVN repository I have working are unable to connect to the repository with the following messages:

Unable to connect to repository at URL: <url>
Could Not Open Requested File System

The primary complication here is that several user are able to open the repository, and I've verified that the URL they are using is correct, as are their authentication credientials. Specifically things that have been tried:

• Administrative account can check out repository on certain machines (but not others)
• General user accounts can check out repository on certain machines (but not others)
• URL of repository has been verified through access with a web browser on all machines in question.
• The authentication credentials of all users in question have been confirmed correct.

I'm really at a loss here since these seem to rule out both the server configuration and user errors in so far as most documentation and questions I've read cover. Any ideas on what the problem might be, and how to resolve it?

Answer 1

"Could Not Open Requested File System" is (may be) bad sign for repository.

• Did you tried to verify repository in question, clone repo into another location on the same host?
• Which type of repo you have (FSFS, BDB), which protocol for access?
• Can you connect to repo from user-in-question with ordinary browser?
• If you repository is http-based, did your read Apache logs?