Clearcase Woes with Windows 7

Question

I am using clearcase as my versioning system. I have problems with the mapped views. My project contains few components which are required to be registered using admin privliges.

On booting up, the the drives are mounted using non-elevated explorer and these are drives are unable to access if Visual Studio starts in elevated mode.

I found following workaround for this situation

1. use a batch file to build the projects and before starting the batch file map the view to a temporary drive in the elevated command prompt using net use command.
2. Alway start Explorer in elevated mode. I don't know how we do this and don't know if some security constraints are there.

Is there any other way to sort out these issues?

Answer 1

Don't forget that "mapped views" are:

• simple subst (a Windows command, nothing to do with ClearCase)
• still accessible, in case of dynamic views, with "m:\myDynView\..."

So if you can re-do those subst with the right privilege, that should be enough.