Access is denied error while trying to read vbs file from clearcase

Question

My .Net 2010 Development environment is properly configured with ClearCase. Checkins and Checkouts and rest of the operations work normally from within .Net IDE. The problem occurs when I try to build the web setup project.

In PreBuildEvent, I am executing .vbs file to change the build version number. If I try to build the web setup project without checking out the .vbs file, it fails saying :

Building file 'x:\Release\WhateverApp.msi'...
Starting pre-build events...
Access is denied.

If i checkout the .vbs file, it builds successfully.

Can someone point me in the right direction what should i look for to make sure it builds the project successfully without checkingout the file.

Answer 1

If we are talking about a snapshot view (on c:\... even though you mounted said view on the X: drive letter), then you can hijack the file in order to avoid the checkout step.

By default in a ClearCase view, a non-checkout file is read only.
So that means you want to set the file attribute to read-write without notifying ClearCase.