Microsoft KB Archive/253301

= FIX: Regular Users Cannot Open the VSS Database on Windows 2000-Based Computers =

Article ID: 253301

Article Last Modified on 8/7/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 6.0 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q253301



SYMPTOMS
If you log in to Visual SourceSafe on a Microsoft Windows 2000-based computer, the following error message appears:

The database does not exist. Please select another.

If you browse to the location of the srcsafe.ini file, select the file, and then click OK, you return to a blank list of available SourceSafe databases.



CAUSE
This behavior occurs because users who are not in the administrator's group have read-only permission to the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SourceSafe.



RESOLUTION
To resolve this problem, use Regedt32 to grant full control or special access to the registry key.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a bug in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

This bug has been fixed in Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 Service Pack 5 (SP5).

To download service pack 5, see the Visual Studio Product Updates page on the following Microsoft Web site at:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/Aa718353.aspx



Steps to Reproduce the Behavior

 * 1) Install Visual SourceSafe on a Windows 2000-based computer.
 * 2) Create a regular user with no administrative privileges.
 * 3) Log in to the Windows 2000-based computer as the user you created in step 2.
 * 4) Open the Visual SourceSafe explorer and log in as Admin with no password. Note that you receive the error message listed in the "Symptoms" section.

Additional query words: srcsafe

Keywords: kbbug kbfix kbsetup kbvs600sp5fix KB253301

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