Article ID: 167262
Article Last Modified on 5/4/2001
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 4.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 4.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 4.0a
- Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 4.0a
- Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 4.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 4.0a
- Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 5.0 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q167262
SYMPTOMS
In Visual SourceSafe 5.0, the user receives the message:
Unable to create user login file <LogFile Name>
A similar message occurs in Visual SourceSafe 4.0:
Access to the file Rights.Dat denied.
CAUSE
These errors occur because the user does not have Write access to the
Visual SourceSafe database.
RESOLUTION
The solution to these problems is to grant the user full rights to the
Visual SourceSafe directory and all subdirectories.
All Visual SourceSafe users must have the ability to read, write, create
and erase files in the Visual SourceSafe directory and all subdirectories.
For additional information, please see the following articles in the
Microsoft Knowledge Base:
131022 Required Network Rights for the SourceSafe Directories
149586 INFO: VSS on Windows NT Workstation w/ FAT Partition
STATUS
This behavior is by design.
MORE INFORMATION
In addition, when you use Windows NT as the server for the Visual
SourceSafe database you must make sure that the Share and Directory
permissions are the same. In Windows NT, you grant a user access by giving
them permission to access a share. You can also control rights to
individual directories. If the user has full rights to the directory and
read-only rights to the share, he/she will get the error.
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