Re: Here's a rather broad question...

Personally I would not XP 64-bit. Too many things not supported for my
liking.
Anyway, it is your funeral.

Everything I need it to handle is supported, thank you very much.

You dont mention what database technology you wish to use but I assume it
is classic ADO (on-topic here) and not ADO.NET (off-topic here, all .NET
stuff should be discussed in the newsgroups that Microsoft setup for this
technology. They all have "dotnet" as part of the newsgroup name,
somewhere. There is a newsgroup specifically for using ADO.NET)

Yes, this is why I mentioned classic ASP and IIS.

After a few hours, whatever I do, I always seem to run into connection
string problems, authentication problems, permission problems,
whatever--so I wanna start over again with a clean slate and not make any
assumptions on current state.

Well you will have to say what you have done, give Connection strings,
version numbers, _EXACT_ error messages etc

I've gone through too many to start enumerating here; this is why I'm taking
the "I'm a dumbass user and I've never done this before and I wanna know
what steps I have to go through" approach instead of going through every
single problem I've encountered so far. At this point I'm not interested in
diagnosing any specific error; I'm looking for the general steps you
normally would have to take starting from a clean install of the components
listed in my original message. If you can't be bothered with general advice
for n00bs, I'm cool with letting somebody else help me along.


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