title: Why does perforce show "//depot <contains no files or folders>"?
body: <p>Starting yesterday I have been unable to connect to our Perforce server. Expanding the depot gives the message "//depot ". Funny because I connected just fine last week and the folks sitting next to me can connect without problems.</p>
  
  <p>IT says nothing the settings have not changed and no errors are being reported. It doesn't help that IT is multiple time zones away!</p>
  
  <p>I'm hoping someone here has seen a similar problem and can tell me which switch to flip.</p>
  
  <p><strong>SOLVED:</strong> Using P4Win or P4V there are no errors. BUT using the command line p4.exe I get the error "protected namespace - access denied". Passed this onto IT and perforce mysteriously works again. Sounds like I got my permissions disabled and then re-enabled. No-one has owned up to anything but at least I'm up and running again!</p>
  
  <p>Funny that I had to go to the command line before I got an error message.</p>