PRB: Access Denied or File Locked When Log In to SourceSafe

Last reviewed: January 10, 1997
Article ID: Q154486
The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft SourceSafe for Macintosh, version 3.1
  • Microsoft Visual SourceSafe for Macintosh, version 4.0a
  • Microsoft Visual SourceSafe, 16-bit and 32-bit, for Windows, version 4.0, 5.0
  • Microsoft SourceSafe for Windows, version 3.1
  • Microsoft SourceSafe for Windows NT, version 3.1
  • Microsoft SourceSafe for MS-DOS, version 3.1

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:

   ARTICLE-ID: Q131022
   TITLE     : Required Network Rights for the SourceSafe Directories


KBCategory: kbprg kbprb
KBSubcategory: ssafe
Additional reference words: 3.10 4.00 4.00a 5.00 kbdss vss



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Last reviewed: January 10, 1997
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