Team Explorer Everywhere with Eclipse authentication

Question

I'm using Team Explorer Everywhere with Eclipse. When I try to check-in my changes I get the following error:

Access denied connecting to TFS server myServerAddress (authenticating as myComputerName/myUser)

I tried to use CrossPlatformCommandLine tool with the tf profile command, but i got the following message

An argument error occurred: The command 'profile' is unknown

How can I manage my credentials?

Answer 1

Profiles were removed from Team Explorer Everywhere 2012. The authentication in TEE 2012 is as follows:

1. If you have specified credentials on the command-line, those will be used.

2. If you have specified credentials for your TFS server, those will be used.

   • On Windows, TEE will use credentials in the Credential Manager.

   • On Mac OS, TEE will use credentials in Keychain.

   • On other Unix systems, TEE will use the file $HOME/.microsoft/Team Foundation/4.0/Configuration/TEE-Servers/Credentials.xml.

3. If no stored passwords are available, TEE 2012 will then try to authenticate with your currently logged-in user credentials.

   • On Windows, you will get single sign-on and not need to present a password if you are on the same domain as the TFS server, have a trust relationship between your logged-in domain and the TFS server's domain, or if you're using a "shadow account" on your local machine with a corresponding account on the TFS server.

   • On Unix platforms, if you have a Kerberos ticket, we will try to use that to authenticate (if the TFS server is configured to support Negotiate authentication.)

4. If you TEE cannot determine your logged-in user credentials, you will be prompted for your username and password, unless you have specified the -noprompt command-line option.

So, if Team Explorer Everywhere is not able to authenticate using your logged-in credentials, you can override this behavior by adding your credentials to the Credential Manager.

Answer 2

Few days ago I downloaded updates for TEE and know everything works fine. I haven't made any other changes. Maybe it was some problem with previous version.