Unable to connect to Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 6.0

(Last modified: 10Jun2003)

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fact

Novell Developer Edition

Novell exteNd Application Server Designer 3.7.4

Novell exteNd Application Server 3.7.4

Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional

symptom

Unable to connect to Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 6.0

When selecting the Pages folder in the exteNd Application Server Designer, receive an error

Error: "An Error occurred while trying to communicate with the server.  Either the server is not running, or a network error occurred.
An error occurred communicating with SoureSafe.
Error from 'SourceSafe': The SourceSafe database path XXX does not exist.
Please select another database."

When selecting Source in the exteNd Application Server Designer, receive an error

Error: Assertion 'isNull' failed: 'Database XXXX already has source control information.' (java.lang.RuntimeException)

Able to connect to the Microsoft VSS databases from within the Microsoft VSS Explorer successfully once the database locations were updated

change

The name of the server that Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (VSS) Server was installed on was changed

cause

The exteNd Application Server Designer was attempting to connect to the "old" server name, which did not exist anymore.

fix

Need to manually edit the user.prefs file for the exteNd Application Server Designer to point to the new server name where Microsoft VSS is installed.
Here are the steps to edit the user.prefs file:
1. With Microsoft Windows Explorer, please go to the Resources/Preferences folder located under the exteNd Application Server install (i.e.: c:\SilverStream\Resources\Preferences).
2. Make a back-up copy of the user.prefs file
3. Shut down the exteNd Application Server Designer
4. Open the original user.prefs file with NotePad
5. Search for "S_CONTROL"
6. Manually update the "DBLocation" for each SourceSafe database with the correct server name, IP address, or new mapped network drive.
7. Save and Close the user.prefs file
8. Start the exteNd Application Server Designer and test

document

Document Title:	Unable to connect to Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 6.0
Document ID:	10083487
Solution ID:	NOVL89562
Creation Date:	22May2003
Modified Date:	10Jun2003
Novell Product Class:	exteNd

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