If you are using a Web view, you must connect to a Rational
ClearCase server to access resources in ClearCase repositories.
Before you begin
As part of creating a ClearCase Web view, you connect to
the CCRC WAN server. Each ClearCase Web 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
You can also use the following procedure to establish
a connection to the CCRC WAN server that supports the ClearCase view
you have created:
Procedure
- Open the Login to ClearCase dialog
box. You can do this in either of the following ways:
- In the ClearTeam 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 CCRC WAN server that
supports the view from which the resource was imported.
- If you have previously established a connection to the CCRC
WAN server, select the server node for that server in the ClearTeam
Navigator, right-click and select Connect.
- Enter the URL for the CCRC WAN server in the Server URL
field or select a server URL from the drop-down menu. The CCRC WAN
server URL generally takes the following form: http://<server:port>/ccrc
- Type your user name into the User
Name text box. The user name must be valid
on the CCRC WAN server. If the 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 the 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 CCRC WAN server, and all ClearCase views supported by that
server are marked
connected in the
ClearCase
Navigator.
Note: The CCRC WAN 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 CCRC WAN Server dialog
box and prompts you to re-authenticate with the server by supplying
your password.