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PRB: Access Denied or File Locked When Log In to SourceSafe

Article ID: 154486

Article Last Modified on 5/12/2003

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When users attempt to log in to the SourceSafe, they get one of the following error messages listed by version and platform:

Mac 3.1: "File '<path to data folder>:rights.dat' is locked."

Mac 4.0: "Error reading from file '<path to data directory>:rights.dat'"

PC 3.1: "Access to file "<path to data directory>\rights.dat" denied"

PC 4.x and PC 5.: "Access to file "<path to data directory>\rights.dat" denied"

The user may have read-only access to the data directory.

At the operating system level, change the user's rights to the SourceSafe data directory to include write or modification rights.

This behavior is by design.

For more information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

131022 Required Network Rights for the SourceSafe Directories

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