refuses to open local copy with server address from other system

[Tom Vajzovic]

Hi,

I have a repository which is located on a windows server, and I have checked out a working copy using a windows client.

The command used to create the working copy on windows was
bzr co \\servername\directory\repositoryname

Now I have taken that working copy to a linux machine, and bzr explorer refuses to open it with the message:

bzr: ERROR: Invalid url supplied to transport: "file://servername/directory/repositoryname": local urls must start with file:/// or file://localhost/

Now obviously the linux machine cannot access the windows server, but I never told it to! All I want is to explore the local copy and the log history, see which files have been modified locally, and perhaps make local commits.

If I open a linux terminal in the local copy then the command line tool can run bzr log and bzr diff, so really the GUI should be able to do this too. It appears to be unable to because of some over-zealous string checking, when it hasn't even been told to access the server.

Many thanks,
Tom