You must connect to a Rational ClearCase server to access resources
in ClearCase repositories.
Before you begin
As part of creating a ClearCase view, you connect to a Rational
ClearCase server. Each ClearCase view that you create defines a server connection
that you can reuse whenever you want to connect to the server that supports
the view. For more information, see Creating a ClearCase view.
About this task
If you are working in a ClearCase view that is not connected,
invoking any Rational ClearCase operation that requires a connection opens
the Login to ClearCase dialog box. You can also use the
following procedure to establish a connection to a ClearCase server that supports
a ClearCase view you have created:
- Open the Login to ClearCase dialog box. You
can do this in either of the following ways:
- In the ClearCase Navigator, select a ClearCase
view supported by the server to which you want to connect and click the
icon on the ClearCase toolbar
or select Connect from the ClearCase context menu.
- In the Eclipse environment, select any resource in a project that
has been imported from a ClearCase view and then select from the context menu. This action
connects to the ClearCase server that supports the view from which the resource
was imported.
- If you have previously established a connected to a ClearCase server,
select the server node for that server in the ClearCase Navigator,
right-click and select Connect.
- Type your user name into the User
Name text box. The user name must be valid on the ClearCase
server. If the ClearCase server is running Windows, the user name must include
the Windows domain in which the account was created (for example, DOMAIN\user).
- Type your password into the Password text
box. The password must be valid on the ClearCase server for the
user name you supplied in the previous step.
- If you want the server URL and user name to be stored for future
Eclipse sessions of the current workspace, select Store
and reuse credentials. Your password is stored for the current
session only.
- Click OK.
Results
If the user name and password are valid, you are connected to the
ClearCase server, and all ClearCase views supported by that server are marked
connected in
the
ClearCase Navigator.
Note: The ClearCase server may
be configured to invalidate connections after a period of inactivity. If your
connection has been invalidated, invoking any ClearCase operation that requires
a connection displays the Connect to ClearCase server dialog
box and prompts you to reauthenticate with the server by supplying your password.