Installation Failure?

[Shaun106]

Hi, I am new to Visual Sourcesafe, installed the server componenets onto the server - message says run ddupd.exe.
Created a folder - E:\vss\ - ok
Ran mkss.exe e:\vss\ - ok
Ran ddupd.exe - message says "um.dat may be corrupt"
I've tried login in, but get a message saying " Sourcesafe database on c:\it\vss_admin does not exist"

I am VERY confused - can anyone get me through this?

Thank you in advance...

 

[DonQuichote]

We have similar problems. Only we had the problem that sourcesafe translates driveletters to UNC paths and then does not understand UNC paths.

So we hacked the registry.
in the key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\SourceSafe\Databases

set the value

VSSafe =

E:\somedir

Where somedir is the directory that contains the sourcesafe.ini file and all the nice subdirectories. You may have to look for similar HKEY_CURRENT_USER entries as well, depending on your OS.

Good luck

 

[Shaun106]

OK changed the registry - nothing happened!!!

Started again with the command:
mkss E:\vss\ - ok
E:\vss\ has 5 items in it now:
1.Folder called Loggedin
2.File called aaaaaaaa
3.File called aaaaaaaa.a
4.File called aaaaaaaa.cnt
5.File called um.dat

I had a look at the srcsafe.ini and ss.ini files.
Changed srcsafe.ini file to look for data at E:\vss
Now when I startup Sourcesafe admin, I don't get "Sourcesafe database on c:\it\vss_admin does not exist", i get a "um.dat may be corrupt"
I am then asked to find the location of the srcsafe.ini file.

To correct this I ran analyze -F e:\vss\ from the command prompt and get a "version.dat" is missing message.

I assume that there should be more than the 5 items in the E:\vss\ folder that was created by running mkss.exe.

I hope this gives more info. and you are able to help me further with this problem.

Thank you in advance,

Shaun