Re: Having trouble connecting to MSDE

From: Culbert (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 08/09/04

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    >-----Original Message-----
    >hi,
    >"Culbert" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> ha
    scritto nel messaggio
    >news:9fc901c47908$3cad5bf0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
    >> I have a very basic workgroup at home. I have three
    >> computers, two of them on XP Pro (the ones I'm using
    MSDE
    >> with). I was able to install MSDE and I see the icon on
    >> my system tray. Now, I was reading how to upsize an
    >> Access database from this page
    >> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?
    >> url=/library/en-us/dnmsde/html/msdeforvs.asp
    >>
    >> I choose to create a new database after starting the
    >> Upsize wizard. Then I choose the server, which shows up
    >> in the drop down box. Then it asks me for a username and
    >> password that has "CREATE DATABASE" privileges on the
    >> server. So I put my administrator user name and password
    >> in, then choose the name of my new MSDE database, but it
    >> won't connect. I then tried using no username or
    >> password and I get another error message. What's going
    >> on?
    >> This is a link to my errors.
    >>
    http://www.neolinkcomputers.com/stuff/connection_errors.ht
    >> m
    >>
    >> Thanks
    >
    >the reported errors indicate :
    >a) you instance is set to only allow Windows NT (trusted)
    connection, which
    >is the default when installing MSDE on Windows NT
    platform... in order to
    >allow SQL Server authenticated connection, please have a
    look at
    >http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-
    us;285097 for further
    >info in order to change this behaviour both at install
    time and later...
    >
    >b)you windows account you are using to connect to that
    MSDE instance is not
    >granted login provileges...
    >you have to login with a sysadmin login, usually part of
    >builtin\administrators of SQL Server, and grant that
    windows account login
    >privileges using sp_grantlogin system stored procedure
    >(http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?
    url=/library/en-us/tsqlref/ts
    >_sp_ga-gz_8dri.asp) and then grant database access to
    that login for all
    >desired databases using sp_grantdbaccess system stored
    procedure
    >(http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?
    url=/library/en-us/tsqlref/ts
    >_sp_ga-gz_290z.asp)
    >for your convenience, you can have a look at a free prj
    of mine at the link
    >following my sign., which provides a user interface
    similar to Enterprise
    >Manager, which provides these functionnalities too in a
    viusal way..
    >further free and/or commercial tools for managing MSDE
    can be found at
    >http://www.microsoft.com/sql/msde/partners/default.asp and
    >http://www.aspfaq.com/show.asp?id=2442
    >--
    >Andrea Montanari (Microsoft MVP - SQL Server)
    >http://www.asql.biz/DbaMgr.shtm
    http://italy.mvps.org
    >DbaMgr2k ver 0.8.0 - DbaMgr ver 0.54.0
    >(my vb6+sql-dmo little try to provide MS MSDE 1.0 and
    MSDE 2000 a visual
    >interface)
    >--------- remove DMO to reply
    >
    >.

    Incredible! I haven't tried this yet, but I'm confident
    that this will work. Thank you for such a great response!!
    >


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