>7.) Visual sourcesafe will prompt me for a userid and password.
>Do I use the userID and password I set up on my machine under ADMIN for this user?

No, you will want a unique userid for each machine.

>The documentation says to just join the sourcesafe, but every time I do this it does not work.
>
>So can anyone help me with rest.

We will typically copy an existing project (project and all source, etc.) from another developers machine to the new machine and do a "get latest".

HTH

Dan