CVS no password

[sw.slave]

Due to a recent failure of one of my workstations I have had to temporarly moves files from it to another. I was using VBP without any problems. However now I can no longer check files out of our CVS respository through VBP due to "empty password". CVS works fine through cmd-line and various GUI front ends, but not VBP. I have tried setting the HOME env-var so i know where the .cvspass should be loaded from, but still same error. Does any one know why?

Thanks
Paul.