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PRB: SourceSafe 3.1 Cannot Use UNC Names

Article ID: 131093

Article Last Modified on 11/18/2003

Microsoft SourceSafe
Microsoft SourceSafe
Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 3.1 Standard Edition

This article was previously published under Q131093

SYMPTOMS

SourceSafe cannot use Universal Naming Convention (UNC) names. For example the following setting won't work:

Data_Path = \\SOURCESAFE\SSAFE\SS\DATA

It gives this error:

Invalid path: C:\SOURCESAFE\SSAFE\SS\DATA\um.dat

STATUS

This behavior is by design in SourceSafe version 3.1. Visual SourceSafe version 4.0 can use UNC names.

Additional query words: relative path

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