svn checkout on windows

Question

I have installed svn console client from these binaries - subversion.tigris.org/getting.html#windows - 1.5.6, 1.6.4, 1.6.5. But no release seems to work. Just it can't checkout from any repo (code.gjangoproject.com; code.google.com): svn couldn't connect to server.

There is bug on debian - http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=531338 with the same description. How to solve this bug on windows?

Platform: windows-xp-sp3. SVN-client: 1.5.6, 1.6.4, 1.6.5

UPDATE: I don't want to host the svn server on WinXP, my aim is to be able to checkout from svn servers.

UPDATE2: just installed tortoiseSVN and found the old proxy setting. Seems tortoiseSVN saves its settings to registry and doesn't remove them after deinstallation.

Answer 1

What about using an other SVN client ? Head to http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/

Answer 2

If you really can't connect to the server, then even the svn list command won't work. In that case I'd try one more tactic. From your command line, try telnet <yoursvnserver> 3690. If you get an error with that, it just might be more descriptive than "can't connect".

Answer 3

Make life really, really easy on yourself and just install Visual SVN Server. Fastest, easiest, free-est way of getting SVN running on Windows.