Six Things You Always Need
There are six pieces for information you will always need before you can connect to a CVS repository for the first time. After that these things are stored on your PC and you may never see them again.
1. URL (for the internet) or IP / machineName for a LAN or intranet of CVS server.
2. Account on the CVS server you will use to login with.
3. Password for the account on the CVS server.
4. Type of connection the server is expecting - pserver is most common (Optionally you may need a port number - 2401 is usual).
5. Exact path that was initialized as a repository (including upper/lower case).
6. Name of the project (directory that will get created when you checkout a project).