VSS LAN Service Issue

When opening a project from VSS, i'm getting this little message:

Unable to use SourceSafe LAN service, performance of SourceSafe operations will not be optimal.

VSS is hosted on Server 2003, I am getting nothing in the event logs on the server or the client. We have several workstations accessing VSS, mine is the only one getting that message.

I have ran Alin's SSServiceTest tool, and these are the errors:

Ping function failed with error 000006d9.
SSServiceTest: Accessing file $/File.txt in \\server\ssdb database ...
GetFileStatus function failed with error 000006d9.

I would ignore it, but VSS operations seem to take forever. Anyone help with suggestions

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VSS LAN Service Issue

Omniscient
No, client machines don't need anything started.

If you have firewalls running (on client or server) that blocks RPC communication that may affect the VSS service, but I would have expected a different error code when RPC traffic is blocked (I've seen 0x6ba - RPC_S_SERVER_UNAVAILABLE in that case).

"Endpoint not registered" I've seen only when the service was not running, not installed or I was accessing by mistake a different machine, where there was no service running.

I'd try to make sure that from your machine, the "server" machine name resolves to the same IP address as from the other client machine where the service is accessible (could be a DNS/Wins difference ). Also, I'd try running the ssservicetest tool on server and clients where the service is accessible and see if it works there, what is the difference between the clients.

Alin
rene schrieken
Err 0x6d9 is EPT_S_NOT_REGISTERED. It looks like the service is not correctly registered or started on your machine "server"...

Alin
SaintAnger
Thanx for the response Alin.

The service has to be running (started), because we have 4-5 other developers using the same solution and none of them have this issue or any problems. They do not get that message. Is there something on the client that might not be "started"

Travis
VSS LAN Service Issue

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