Visual Source Safe - users

[MMock]

I'm pretty much an island here, I am the only full-time developer and I use Source Safe more to keep track of revisions of my code than to coordinate changes with other programmers.

I have a consultant who wrote a DLL and I'd like either him or me to create a VSS project and check in all the code. I thought I needed to define him as a VSS user but he already is defined. So how does he start using it? It's on a server - does he need VSS on his desktop and point it to the server? Does he need a license or anything?

Thanks.

[JuggaloBrotha]

He needs it installed on his desktop and he can configure it to use the existing server

[RhinoBull]

Configuring is as easy as clicking the Browse button - when dialog appears simply type \\server_name\share_folder_name and you should get list of available ini files (if there is more than one vss database on the same server).
Select ini file you need and click OK.

[RobDog888]

Go to your admin logon for VSS...

Start button > Program Files > Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 > Microsoft Visual SourceSafe > Visual SourceSafe Admin.

Its from this logon that you can configure the security persmissions for the contractor's user account. You dont want him to have access to your entire code base, only the project folder where his dll project code wil reside.

Are you using Windows Integrated Logins?