Re: Running SourceSafe on remote webserver
- From: "Mike {0A6FF490-CF84-4d78-BD85-FF011A0C310C}" <TechGuy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 21:02:07 -0800 (PST)
Oh! I forgot to respond to the following:
And even then you can only use a Visual
Studio plugin to get to the VSS database.
You can do a net use to the web share like this:
net use \\mydomain.com\myVssFolder
Or, if you like to use the old fashioned drive letters on your shares,
you can assign a drive letter to it too. Then, you can access it just
like you access a VSS database on your LAN... just crank up VSS
client, add a database, browse to \\mydomain.com\myVssFolder (or the
drive letter you assigned to the share), double click that INI file
and you're good to go. Just don't use the client to check in large
chunks of files. Feel free to use it to label, browse, and get files
though. Uploading is just not all that reliable with the client...
it's actually a flaw with MS's web-shared folders technology because
web shares from SharePoint have the same problem. VSS access from
within Visual Studio seems to be rock solid though (after you get
passed the hair pulling configuration, that is!)
Good Luck! And as Jeff said, try to go with SourceOffSite if they've
fixed that particularly dangerous bug.
One other recommendation: SourceVault. It's a totally different
source code control product and much more powerful than VSS and works
across the internet right out of the box... even has events so you can
be notified the moment someone checks something in. The UI in their
client looks an aweful lot like VSS, so if you're already familiar
with VSS, you'll feel right at home. Unlike VSS, it has a seperate
server component and is a true client-server product, where VSS is a
client only product that stores it's stuff on a network share.
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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
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