VSSDatabase.Open via ASP.NET

RE: VSSDatabase.Open via ASP.NET

JB — Thu, 16 Oct 2003 00:03:00 GMT

I'm doing the same thing, and seeing the same error message. However I don't think it's a permission issue with srcsafe.ini -- elsewhere in the code, I'm able to open the srcsafe.ini (with StreamReader) and read the first line from it. So the app certainly has permission to access the file.

RE: VSSDatabase.Open via ASP.NET

Ville — Thu, 30 Oct 2003 14:18:00 GMT

I'm having the exact the same problem.... Please tell me if you solve the problem..

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TK — Tue, 02 Mar 2004 19:57:00 GMT

I'm having the exact same problem, not a permission issue... Please let me know what the solution is... Thanks...

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VSS COM+ extensions lack-luster — Tue, 04 May 2004 21:29:00 GMT

Using the sourcesafetypelib via COM Interop in .NET don't seem to work all that great. try mixing up the order of the 3 parameters of the VSSDatabase.Open method. If you do it right, it says can't find database <user>, if you put the <user> and <password> first it says it doesn't have access, if you put the <user>, <ini file>, then <password> you get a "Cannont open <ini file> error. The error messages you see just don't make any sense at all. I've heard there might be a bug in the way they are transposed, but me don't no nothing about no "transposing". No just know "noworkie". Oh well, I guess that's what VB6 is for, huh.

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Shawn Anderson — Fri, 18 Jun 2004 17:46:00 GMT

Has anyone found a solution to this issue? I am fighting with it aswell :-/

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Art — Mon, 21 Jun 2004 18:41:00 GMT

I think it is a permission issue. Run this code below as an ASP.NET page and then a Console application.
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using SourceSafeTypeLib;

VSSDatabaseClass objVSSDB = new VSSDatabaseClasss();
objVSSDB.Open("PathToSRCSAFE", "validUser", "validPass");
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Personally when run as Console app I had no problems connecting to VSS but if run as an ASP.NET app I failed w/ an error saying that "validUser in not a valid user ... please use different database"

re: VSSDatabase.Open via ASP.NET

Art — Mon, 21 Jun 2004 19:13:00 GMT

One more observation. When I run previously presented code as an ASP.NET application on the web server where the VSS server was located I successfuly connected and retrieved files from VSS. So, IIS and VSS servers have to be on the same machine for things to work. BYW, I have also added ASPNET account to these who can access and modify VSS directory where srcsafe.ini is included.

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Rob Gallo — Fri, 25 Jun 2004 21:47:00 GMT

I believe that I have found one somewhat insecure way around this. By default the ASPNET_WP runs under the ASPNET user which is more restricted then running as a system account. If you modify your machine.config file, and set the processModel in the
<System.Web>
<processModel />
to use either SYSTEM or a domain account, this problem goes away, and no further changes are required to the locations where the vss files are stored.

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Jesse — Mon, 12 Jul 2004 19:37:00 GMT

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longmain — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 07:21:16 GMT

this may be the stupid way, but try declaring the database as an IVSSDatabase, a la:

SourceSafeTypeLib.IVSSDatabase db2 = new VSSDatabaseClass();
db2.Open(@"\\path\srcsafe.ini", "username","pass");

that seems to work for me, at least
============================================

I am writing ASP.NET in VB.net, I failed to find New() method for neither IVSSDatabase nor IVSSDatabaseOld. I have no idea how Jesse get it work.

I also try to get the srcsafe.ini file to local machine and change the "The two important paths used by SourceSafe" -- Data_Path & Temp_Path to point to the server's path with \\server\vss\..(etc.). And I modified the Users_Txt option of the local-copied srcsafe.ini. Then I try to point to the local-copied srcsafe.ini file. I got the following error message:"
System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException: Visual SourceSafe database \\server\vss\data does not exist. Please select another database.”

I am still tring. If anybody have development, tell me :(
longmain@hotmail.com

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JE — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 00:52:01 GMT

If you're doing this like I was, you were attempting to use the VSS com object via com interop. With impersonation on (in web.config), I could:

1) Read/write files on my web server from my code. (No problem)
2) with impersonation/delegation, read/write files on a file share from my code.
3) Have the VSS COM object manipulate a VSS database on my web server.
What I could not do, was
4) Have the VSS COM object manipulate a VSS database on some file share.

Impersonation was NOT extended to the COM object. It worked in my code, though. From looking at security logs, it looks like the vss object was trying to log in as IUSR or some account local to the web server -- not a domain account, and definitely not my impersonated account.

I found a solution here:
http://www.dmbcllc.com/server.aspx
I don't know how it works, but apparently if you create a com+ application on your web server, you can give it any domain login you like, and that login will be impersonated/delegated to any VSS server. This fits my requirement ok for now.

-J

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Boler Guo — Sun, 09 Oct 2005 11:09:30 GMT

http://www.siteexperts.com/forums/viewConverse.asp?d_id=15214&Sort=0

i try this:
<identity impersonate=true userName=Domainname\networkuserlogin password=trustme />

but no use~

re: VSSDatabase.Open via ASP.NET

Boler Guo — Sun, 09 Oct 2005 11:10:53 GMT

http://www.siteexperts.com/forums/viewConverse.asp?d_id=15214&Sort=0

i try this:
<identity impersonate=true userName=Domainname\networkuserlogin password=trustme />

but no use~

re: VSSDatabase.Open via ASP.NET

MR T. — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 21:02:57 GMT

I used the following:

string path = "c:\website\vss\srcsafe.ini";

that being the location on the server that the aspx pages are loaded, then in that srcsafe.ini file i had the following

#include \\server\share\srcsafe.ini

that worked a treat for me.

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Andy — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 01:25:00 GMT

I tried the #include suggested... I don't know if I goofed something up, but it did not work.

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