title: Connection refused on SVN checkout attempt
body: <p>I am using Linux on VMWare Workstation inside windows 7 and i want to access to the URL below in terminal but i always get this error back. I am totally sure that everything is correct because my friend has tried the same on his computer and it worked. Please advise me something about it .It is very important </p>
  
  <p>svn co svn://svn.alunos.di.uminho.pt/projectname --username  <strong><em>_</em>_</strong> --password <strong><em>_</em>_</strong></p>
  
  <p>svn: E000111: Unable to connect to a repository at URL 'svn://svn.alunos.di.uminho.pt/<strong>__</strong>'</p>
  
  <p>svn: E000111: Can't connect to host 'svn.alunos.di.uminho.pt': Connection refused</p>