Getting the MS Visual Source Safe command line option to work

[championsleeper]

Hi,

Am "desperate" to get the Microsoft Visual Source Safe (vss) command
line interface to work.

Here is my situation:
- running Windows XP Professional ver 2000 service pack 1
- using Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 6.0
- can access projects through VSS Explorer (password not supplied, ini
file I point to contains one entry which points towards the network
folder where the main ini file is and the data itself - file at end.
- on the command line, setup path with location of ss executable,
ssdir with location of srcsafe.ini file with location of LOCAL
srcsafe.ini file and set variable ssuser to appropriate value.

Everytime I attempt to login from the command line I get the response
Username: NAME
Password:

I have never had to give a password on the explorer and do not know
what it is. I have alos tried with ssdir set to the network folder
where the "full" source safe initialization file is located - same
resutlt.

One interesting observation - when I set the values for ssdir, path
and ssuser in the system environemnt variables (as opposed to in a dos
prompt) then it does not work but I do get a prompt for the username
and password when I run the explorer. Under these circumstances, for
some reason, it then points towards a database on the local machine. I
point it towards the network folder and select ok. I can then login
without a password.

I am confused .....

; srcsafe.ini
;
; Three of these variables -- Data_Path, Users_Path, and Users_Txt

-- must

; be in srcsafe.ini. Any other variable here can be overridden in

ss.ini.

; Similarly, any ss.ini variable can be placed in srcsafe.ini to

set a

; system "default," which individual users can still override in

ss.ini.

; The three important paths used by SourceSafe.
Data_Path = data
Temp_Path = temp
; This tells admin where to put personal directories for new

users.

Users_Path = users
; From this, find users.txt; from that, in turn, find ss.ini for a

user.

Users_Txt = users.txt
Use_Network_Name = Yes
Keyword_Masks = *.cpp,*.h,*.pas,*.dpr,*.idl
Multiple_Checkouts = Yes
Shadow =
[Printer Config Files]
Text = text.cfg
PostScript = postscri.cfg
[$/path_removed]
Shadow (PC) =
[$/path_removed]
Shadow (PC) = \\path_removed
Shadow_EOL = N
Shadow_SetTime = Update
[$/path_removed]
Shadow (PC) = \\path_removed
Shadow_EOL = N
Shadow_SetTime = Update