Redmine

Hi guys, I'm completely new to Redmine, so please forgive me if it is painfully obvious how clueless I am.

I installed Redmine on my local machine in order to test it out, as my development team at work is looking for a project management solution and it seemed like a promising choice. One feature that I'd like to test out, but I haven't had much success with thus far, is SVN integration.

I suspect part of the difficulty may be this: on my local machine, I connect to our SVN server using VPN. When the VPN's disconnected, I don't have access to it.

I tried filling in the repository settings for my project with my VPN connection active, but it didn't seem to work.

What I got was the following error message, upon clicking on the 'Repository' tab for my project:

An error occurred when trying to access the repository: No such file or directory - svn list --xml "[SVN URL]"@HEAD
--username xxxx --password xxxx --no-auth-cache --non-interactive

Is what I'm trying to achieve here possible? Do I need to host the repository on my local machine in order to get this to work? Any help would be much appreciated.