Error: "data\rights.dat is already open"

Error: "data\rights.dat is already open"

• programmerjoey

  Hmmm… from what I see you already have several connections to this computer.

  Could you check how many sessions are opened on this computer in Computer Management->Shared Folders->Sessions. Look in Computer Management->Shared Folders->Opened Files to see which files are opened from your computer by others.

  XP limits number of clients to 10.

  Also, it is really not a good idea to have VSS database under your documents and settings folder. This folder is for storing your private files and default ACLs are set to protect them. You may have problems with access rights if you keep your database in this folder.

  You can simply move this database in new location, recreate the share and reset file access rights to make it work in new location.

  Have you tried creating new database and accessing it

  
  

• PjV

  the thing is, I don't have ANY connections to the computer through sourcesafe!! It just gives me that error message, even if I'm trying to connect on the machine it's hosted on... this is really getting hair-pulling...

  so here is what I did. I uninstalled the program and deleted the sourcessafe database from the "My Documents" folder. I reinstalled visual sourcessafe and created a new database at c:\Visual sourcesafe. I logged in as admin and added a new user. I closed visual sourcesafe admin on the host machine. then I fired up my laptop and ran visual studio 2005. I opened a project and tried to add to source control, logging in as that new user and I get the same damn error. what am i doing wrong !

  -SelArom

  
  
  

• GTrz

  okay here is what I've managed to accomplish so far...

  I reinstalled vss on my remote pc and my laptop, and cleared everything out having to do with ss in the registry because it kept trying to connect to my old db from the laptop...

  I created a new database on the remote pc and created a new user. I logged in as that user on the remote pc through vss and created a project and added a file to it. No problem!! I close everything on my remote server (both the admin and vss), then try it again just to see what happens, and it logs me into both systems, just fine. So, I close everything again.

  now I go to my laptop, fire up vs 2005 and open a project. I want to try and add this project to source control, so I right click the project in the solution explorer and select add to source control and it gives me the wizard to connect to a new database, and I select the database on the remote pc (\\SERVER\visual SourceSafe) which is located at c:\Visual Sourcesafe on the remote pc and shared through the network. I type in my log in credentials (the same as the ones I logged on the remote pc) and as soon as I do that BAM I get the SAME ERROR MESSAGE!! AHHH!

  what is the correct procedure to connect to the remote database over the lan

  -SelArom

  
  
  

• CharlyA

  I have the same problem. Opening any project that is integrated with sourcesafe via Visual Studio 2005 causes the status.dat file to remain opened (after closing Visual Studio 2005). This causes the analyze utility to fail. You can verify this by opening an integrated project in Visual Studio 2005 and looking at the open files via My Computer->Manage->System Tools->Shared Folders->Open Files.
  

• chief_druid_tma

  Do you get this error without ever connecting from another computer (Reboot the server and then connect to the database with VSS Explorer on the server using local path (not share) and then add project and files to the database)

  Could you try to check open handles for this file with Process Explorer right after you reboot the server and then after you connect to this database with VSS Admin and then close VSS Admin.

  You should have this file opened only while you are connected to this database, but it should not be opened after reboot and after VSS Admin is closed (assuming there is no connections from another computer)

  Do you have any program or service running that may prevent this file from been closed Perhaps some antivirus

  Do you have the same behavior if you create VSS database on your other computer

  Do you always get the same exact error message (same text, same file) What is the exact message

  
  

• Jamie Cansdale

  Roman Golovin MSFT wrote:

  SelArom,           Close all the programs that are connected to this database (including from other computers). Disable LAN service using VSS Admin->Server->Configure->LAN. Reboot the machine if you need to. Now do the search in Process Explorer (Find->Find Handle or DLL…) for rights.dat. You should not see any entries pointing to your rights.dat file. If you do then you need to look which process has the handle open on this file. If you do not have this file opened anymore could you try opening VSS Explorer and try adding a file to the database Did this work If not what exact error message did you get   Could you try to create new database on the same server and see if you can work with the new database

   
  Hi Roman, thanks for your help. Here's what I did:
   
  1) Rebooted
  2) Tried to run VSS Admin
  3) Immediately Got error: File \\SERVER\Visual Sourcesafe\rights.dat is already open."
  4) Ran process explorer and searched for rights.dat, here is a screen capture of what I got: http://www.selarom.com/images/screencap.gif
   
  I realized it's trying to connect via the share (which it told me to do when I tried to enable http). So I configured it to connect to the database directly, and got the same error. I then set it to automatically connect to that one next time I try, and I rebooted.
   
  This time I was able to connect as admin, and I logged in and disabled http and lan. Now I tried to connect via that same machine and actually got in! Yay. So I try to create a project in the SS and it says "File C:\Documents and Settings\Josh Morales\My Documents\Visual Sourcesafe\data\aaaaaaaa.cnt is already open."
   
  why is this happening and am I not going to be able to use the Lan service and http
   
  -SelArom
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