In your organization, you may be able to access snapshot views on a different type of platform from the one on which you work.
A set of vendor products are supported for accessing UNIX® file systems from Windows® computers. If your organization uses one of these products, you can access UNIX snapshot views from either Rational® ClearCase® Explorer or Windows Explorer (or a command prompt) just as you would access any other directory tree on a UNIX workstation.
You can access snapshot views across different platforms, but you cannot issue Rational ClearCase commands across platforms. For example, you cannot check out files in snapshot views on UNIX workstations from Rational ClearCase hosts on Windows computers, nor can you create shortcuts to snapshot views on UNIX workstations from Rational ClearCase Explorer.
If you are on a Rational ClearCase host running on a Windows computer and you hijack a file in a UNIX snapshot view, the hijack is detected when you update the view from a Rational ClearCase host on a UNIX platform.