Re: Installing MSDE 2000 Release A on a XP Home Machine

From: Jim Young (thorium48_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/11/05


Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 22:23:22 -0800

Regarding question #2 - If your computers are not a member of a domain then
Windows authentication will be of less importance and all user will be local
to the machine they are running on. If you have the chance to use Windows
security then what groups the users are a member of is entirely up to you.
Ideally you would make the groups the logins to the server and the add the
user to the groups. That way you do not have to add each user individually
as a login to the server.

Jim

"Mark Holahan" <mark.holahan@unifiedllc.com> wrote in message
news:eaXlKZ2DFHA.3824@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Thanks Jim! Yes...of course. Can you tell I haven't done this before?
>
> Do you have any comment regarding my second question?
>
> Many thanks.
>
>
> "Jim Young" <thorium48@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:%23ioGNN0DFHA.3536@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>> You application should utilize a configuration file or the registry to
>> store the ADO connection string or the parameters for the connection
>> string. Then you would simply change the configuration information to
>> point to another server. Making a connection string for a different
>> server is easy - just replace one server name with another. See the Books
>> Online for more information about ADO or ADO.NET connection strings and
>> how to construct them.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>> "Mark Holahan" <mark.holahan@unifiedllc.com> wrote in message
>> news:unoBXFtDFHA.2600@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'd like to install MSDE 2000 Release A on a XP Home machine via the
>>> command-prompt switches and parameters. I have two areas of ignorance:
>>>
>>> 1) At first blush, it seems to me that I'll have disparate server names.
>>> By this I mean that when I install MSDE on my computer to conduct the
>>> development, it will have the name "Server_Name"\"Instance_Name". My
>>> server's called "Dell," So I'll have a MSDE instance of,
>>> DELL\"Instance_Name" On the other hand, the target server, an XP Home
>>> machine, is called "SherPerf." So this server instance will be named
>>> SHERPERF\"Instance_Name"
>>>
>>> I plan on using an Access adp front end. I don't know how to code viable
>>> connection strings around disparate server names. I.E. in development
>>> I'm connecting to server name #1; but, in production I'm connecting to
>>> server name #2.
>>>
>>> What am I missing?
>>>
>>> 2) If I want to use Windows Authentication, should I create a new user?
>>> If so, what groups should this user be part of? Is it standard practice
>>> to create a user account for MSDE programmatically? If so, how do I do
>>> this? LDAP?
>>>
>>> I realize this is a lot to ask. Thanks in advance.
>>> --
>>> --
>>> Mark Holahan
>>>
>>
>>
>
>



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