Tortoise CVS checkout problem

I am little stumped while using TortoiseCVS. I have setup CVS server on a Ubuntu server and then initiated a repository under projects folder. Which created a CVSROOT folder as expected (projects/CVSROOT). Then created a directory structure under the projects folder and copied whole bunch of files in the new directory tree. The reason I did this is most of the files wouldn't be monitored by CVS.

So the new directory tree开发者_如何学运维 looks like this:

projects
  -CVSROOT
  -subproject1
    -admin
    -reports
  -subproject2
    -admin
    -software

...and so on

Now I would like to use tortoiseCVS from a windows machine and checkout the reports folder but when I try I get "cannot open CVS/Entries for reading: No such file or directory" error.

I thought this may be because I didn't do an add or import for the directory tree through CVS. But when use cygwin and do a checkout using command line I get no problem and I can get a copy of the desired folder/module.

If then through command line I add/commit a file into say the reports folder only then I am able to checkout that module through TortoiseCVS, but other wise I can't.

I could add a temp file to each directory through command line but I really don't want to do that.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance

Manny