Today we run into the same problem and found that there was a svn service user on our 2008 R2 machine for which we had to add the registry entry as described for local users, after that, it works perfect.
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Today we run into the same problem and found that there was a svn service user on our 2008 R2 machine for which we had to add the registry entry as described for local users, after that, it works perfect.