MSDE 2000: Authentication failed despite BLANKSAPWD

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From: Stefan M. Huber (looseleaf_at_gmx.net)
Date: 10/28/04


Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 10:31:15 +0200

Hi!

   We're having troubles on a Windows 2003 Server. MSDE 1.0 does not
install (even though we already have this setup at other customers).

So I downloaded MSDE 2000. Unfortunately, somebody else just executed the
installation procedure without setup-parameters. I wanted to have an empty
password (I know, I know. But it is a closed system) and I need SQL
security mode and network protocols.

Thus I uninstalled MSDE 2000 again and launched setup.exe this way:

setup DISABLENETWORKPROTOCOLS=0 SECURITYMODE=SQL BLANKSAPWD=1

The installation went fine and I did *no* receive the error about the
trusted connections. However, I received "Authentication for user sa
failed" when simply doing this

   osql -Usa -P -dmaster

Any clues?

Stefan



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