Trouble creating views on RWP server hosted on Windows 2003 Server

Attempts to create an IBM® Rational® ClearCase® web view using CCWeb or CCRC where the web server is running the Rational® Web Platform hosted on a machine running Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 results in the error is ccweb: Error: Unable to create temporary file: Permission denied.

Symptom

Attempts to create a web view (CCWeb or CCRC) from a client where the server is running the Rational Web Platform hosted on Windows Server 2003 results in the following error: !   Unable to determine the config spec for view, "administrator_rwp_vu": No such file or directory ccweb: Error: Unable to create temporary file: Permission denied.                            [  OK  ]

Cause

The error can appear if the user is creating the view from an existing view or view config spec. This only happens when the Rational Web Platform (RWP) is installed on a Windows Server 2003. Windows Server 2003 does not assign ANY permissions to the Everyone group, compared to Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 Servers where the Everyone group was assign Full Control.

Resolving the problem

The Everyone group may need to be assigned at least write permission to the root of the RWP disk partition (for example if RWP is installed at C:\Program Files\Rational... the root disk partition would be C:\) The following procedure should be followed to assign at least the write permission to theEveryone group or any group that may want to create a view using an existing view’s config_spec to avoid the error. Right click on the drive where RWP is installed (by default the C drive) Click Security Assign the ‘Everyone’ group at least ‘Write’ permission to the root of the partition Click OK