Re: Running SourceSafe on remote webserver

Be careful with SourceOffSite. Check their bug fix history and make
sure they've fixed the following bug:

I used it around 2002~2003 and I confirmed the following: My settings
were set to NOT delete my local data during check in. I checked in my
code while I had Windows Explorer open to my source folder. I saw my
files disappear one by one as they were checked in. Then I looked
into the server and it failed to check them in. So, I had nothing
checked in and it deleted my local copy. VERY Dangerous!

I do realize that a lot of people have had success with this product,
but I and my company stopped using it immediately after I was able to
reproduce that fatal flaw (it was difficult to reproduce as it didn't
do that every time). If it weren't for that, I'd highly recommend
that product. Aside from deleting any chance of recovery of my source
code, everything else about it was great, if you could afford the $350/
seat license fees. It was fast across our LAN and WAN and it worked
across the internet (I think). VSS HTTP is extremely tricky to set up
and is very very slow, but highly reliable and you don't have to spend
money on a 3rd party product.

Good luck with whichever product you choose to go with.

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Owner/Operator of
www.MichaelsAttic.com

On Feb 12, 4:14 pm, Jeff Clausius <je...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
engwar:

As you may have seen from Mike's post, there is a lot to setup to allow
Remote Access to SourceSafe.  And even then you can only use a Visual
Studio plugin to get to the VSS database.

Another alternative you may want to investigate is SourceOffSite.  The
setup is a tad bit easier, and you can use either a SourceOffSite
Explorer or Visual Studio to access your VSS databases.

There is a free 30-day trial for the tool athttp://www.sourcegear.com/sos

HTH
Jeff Clausius
SourceGear



engwar wrote:
We're running SourceSafe on an internal server at my company but have
been asked to look into running the server component on a webserver
outside of our corporate network. We would use either Visual Studio or
the SourceSafe client application to check files in/out.

+ Does SourceSafe allow the hosting of the  server component somewhere
other than the local network? (when I choose 'Add SS Database' the
verbiage implies that the ini file I'm looking for is on the local
network.)

+ Would the source code be available only to people whom we've set up
as users or does hosting it outside of our firewall basically publish
our source code?- Hide quoted text -

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