Thanks Emmanuel and Edwin for your response. The last colon was easy to miss.
I have advanced a little bit but haven't solved the problem completely. On Windows, Continuum is able to fetch and build successfully. On a linux box, the same pom.xml doesn't work. The build failure is that CVS is not able to recognize the password. Pasted below is the output from continumm build on linux box (Note: the server and user name have been sanitized) Provider message: The cvs command failed. Command output: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Empty password used - try 'cvs login' with a real password cvs [checkout aborted]: authorization failed: server MY_SERVER rejected access to /usr/local/cvsroot for user MY_USER ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/scm-connection-string-tf1855935.html#a5067891 Sent from the Continuum - Users forum at Nabble.com.