Release plugin with sourceforge

[Michael Remijan <mj...@yahoo.com>]

Has anyone gotten the Maven release plugin to work on Windows with a CVS SourceForge project.  I've been working on this all day and have made some progress but now I'm stuck.  In my POM, I have my SCM defined as:

<scm>
<connection>scm:cvs:ext:${cvs.username}@ferris.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ferris:ferris-assemblies</connection> 
<tag>HEAD</tag>
<url>http://ferris.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ferris/ferris-assemblies</url>
</scm>

I've used puttygen.exe to create a key and I have SSH_RSH set to use plink.exe.  

Running cvs commands from the command line works fine.

I then start the release project with:
C:\>mvn -Dmaven.scm.provider.cvs.implementation=cvs_native release:prepare
This actually works OK until it gets to the point where the plugin wants to checkin the new POM.  When it gets to this point it failes with the following error message:
[INFO] Checking in modified POMs...
>[INFO] Executing: cmd.exe /X /C "cvs -z3 -f -q commit -R -F C:\DOCUME~1\MICHAE~1.REM\LOCALS~1\Temp\scm-commit-
>message7879987862192973151.txt pom.xml"
>[INFO] Working directory: C:\Apps\Workspace\ferris-assemblies
>[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>[ERROR] BUILD FAILURE
>[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>[INFO] Unable to commit files
>Provider message:
>The cvs command failed.
>Command output:
>cvs [commit aborted]: the :extssh: access method is not available on this system
I can't figure out why it's trying to use extssh now??  Anyone have any ideas??

Thanks!
Mike