PRB: Access Denied or File Locked When Log In to SourceSafe
Article ID: 154486
Article Last Modified on 5/12/2003
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 5.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 6.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 4.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 4.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft SourceSafe
- Microsoft SourceSafe
- Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 3.1 Standard Edition
- Microsoft SourceSafe
This article was previously published under Q154486
SYMPTOMS
When users attempt to log in to the SourceSafe, they get one of the
following error messages listed by version and platform:
Mac 3.1: "File '<path to data folder>:rights.dat' is locked."
Mac 4.0: "Error reading from file '<path to data directory>:rights.dat'"
PC 3.1: "Access to file "<path to data directory>\rights.dat" denied"
PC 4.x and PC 5.: "Access to file "<path to data directory>\rights.dat"
denied"
CAUSE
The user may have read-only access to the data directory.
RESOLUTION
At the operating system level, change the user's rights to the SourceSafe
data directory to include write or modification rights.
STATUS
This behavior is by design.
REFERENCES
For more information, please see the following article in the Microsoft
Knowledge Base:
131022 Required Network Rights for the SourceSafe Directories
Keywords: kbprb KB154486