If you're successful, the Checked Out folder will appear with a Green Tick indicating that it is under version control.

If you're using an Administrator account you shouldn't have any issues connecting. Enter your local username and password, which should successfully connect you to your repository.

If you have entered the correct details, an 'Authentication' dialog should appear prompting you to enter a Username and Password combination.

You shouldn't have to change anything else on the Dialog that appears after following Step 4.

For example: If the local IP address of your computer is 192.168.0.something and the name of your repository is MyRepository, to connect to that repository you'll have to type: in the URL of repository field.

To connect to your repository (Step 2) you'll need to use HTTPS, followed by the local IP address of the computer (your computer in this case) Visual SVN is hosted on, followed by /svn/NameOfYourRepository.A Dialog should appear prompting you to enter the details required to connect to a repository. Right-click on the newly created folder and select SVN Checkout.If you have Tortoise SVN installed correctly, your context menu should have a bunch of new options.

Once that is done, create a folder anywhere on your computer.'MyRepository') for the repository, remembering to not include any spaces. On Visual SVN, right-click on Repositories and choose the Create New Repository option.You don't create a repository from a local folder. I used subversion for a bunch of university projects so I have a pretty good idea of how Visual SVN works. I have Visual SVN setup on a Virtual Machine so I'll try and help as best as I can.

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