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Can I mount a ClearCase view hosted on a Unix (Solaris 8) Server on my Windows XP machine?

My company uses ClearCase for their versioning system. This is my first experience with ClearCase, and I'm trying to figure things out. The View (or VoB, don't know which one I'm actually accessing) is hosted on a Unix server running Solaris 8. I log into that server using Cygwin, by either starting an x server connected to the server (for graphical applications), or just by using telnet or SSH. Once I'm in, I run the following commands:

activate ccase
newgrp <groupname>
ct setview <viewname>
cd ~<groupname>/<project>/src

Then I can either just browse the source, or usually (assuming I connected using the X server), I just run

xclearcase&

to bring up the ClearCase GUI.

Not much of this is relevant to my situation, except that it hopefully should give you enough information about how I connect that you might be able to answer my question. What I want to do is be able to access this ClearCase View through my Windows machine directly, preferably by mounting the view to a drive letter. I have Rational ClearCase and a bunch of ClearCase tools installed on my Windows machine, I just can't figure out how to start that view, and mount it to a drive, because it's located on a Unix system. Is this possible? CAN I access this code from my Windows machine directly? The reason I want to do this is because I want to develop the code using Visual Studio for C++, for the IDE feature-set. (Visual Studio is my preferred IDE)

By the way, my ClearCase Explorer version on my Windows machine is 2003.06.10+

Thanks in advance!

Rowley

Seeing as you're on Solaris 8, your best bet is to install and configure samba. I'm assuming you're running on sparc hardware:

http://www.sunfreeware.com/programlistsparc8.html#samba

The samba howto:

http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/install.html

crakdmirror

ASKER

That sounds like a viable solution; however, getting the security permissions to modify the server will be a pain. There's no built-in mechanism, whether in ClearCase or Solaris? I was hoping there was a way to access the files via SFTP or the like. If that was the case, I could pull down the files (without even checking them out, just the read-only files) to my workstation, edit them as I needed, then put them back into my home directory on the server, check the needed files out of ClearCase, check my new files in, and I'd be good! But because I have to run ClearCase and do all the View stuff, which I'm really not that familiar with, I'm not sure if that's possible.

Thanks again, though!

Rowley

Not seen clearcase I'm afraid. Does clearcase not allow you to configure ssh(scp)?

crakdmirror

ASKER

Again, I'm pretty new to ClearCase, so I can't really answer your question. I guess I'll have to check with the administrators on that kind of stuff.

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crakdmirror

ASKER

I actually figured this out myself with help from another guy over at my company....the whole registry and regions thing, I mean. He's working on making a Windows region for the project. But thanks for the comment, enjoy some points!

kadaba

alright, thanks mate.

I am working on a clearcase assignment right now. if any queries let me know i will try to answer them.

good day