When working at the Command Line, if you get a message stating "No VSS database (SRCSAFE.INI) found. Use the SSDIR environment variable or run netsetup.", set the SSDIR variable. This will tell VSS where to find the SRCSAFE.INI file for the VSS server installation to which you want to connect. You can do this by typing the following at the MS-DOS prompt:
set ssdir=\\server\share\vss
Where \\server\share\vss is the folder where the srcsafe.ini file is located.
Note Do not put a space between the equal sign and the location of the VSS server installation. The following will not work: set ssdir= \\server\share\vss.