Most of the books that I have read, including this one assume that you are using Microsoft Server Express and that is fine, unless you have Microsoft Server 2008 (not express) already installed on your computer. I am trying to understand what I need to do to work with role management. Express sets automatically sets up the aspnetdb database under app_data, but that does not seem to be the case when you are using the real server. Is there someone out there that can either point me in the correct direction or sugest a book that I could read that covers this area.

Thanks

Attach the database to an existing instance of your SQL DB, and change the connection string to point to it.

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Thanks for the info...The error message has changed from can not find server to can not open database "aspnetdb.dbo". I had previously created aspnetdb.dbo using aspnet_regsql

Where is the db located on your system? If you are running SQL Server as Network Service, you are limited in where you can place the files.

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Sorry about that...I had used the wrong database name in the connection string. All is happy and content know. Thank you for you quick response...you are a life saver and the desk that I was banging my head agenst will thank you forever.

Awesome! You're welcome. Good luck, enjoy the book.

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