I think there is something I don't understand about creating the login for NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE. What goes in the place of NT AUTHORITY? My login name? I got the other login entered.


Just tried it with my login name ie, uname\NETWORK SERVICE and I get an error saying it couldn't create account because of invalid characters in the name. I'm assuming the space is a problem but I'm not sure.

Ignore my last response, which I have deleted. It should be NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE, this is a "general" account that might need enabling. Click New Database user in SQL and type this in exactly under the name. Make you select the database underneath as well. This account doesn't appear in the available users if you browse through it. Then click OK.

Chris

Chris Ullman
Programmer/Technical Author
http://www.cuasp.co.uk

I see a NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM but no NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE. I cannot add this account either as I get an error saying it contains an invalid character. I can add just NETWORK SECURITY (and did so). This still doesn't work.

( Change the connection strings in web.config. That should be all for the WroxUnited database - then there's the providers, which can either be added to WroxUnited db or to a separate one.
)

I'm not sure what you mean by the "providers". What do I need to do about that?. If IIS is such a pain it would be nice if there were a set of instructions somewhere for setting this up. It is the platform it will run on in the real world, right?

I went into sql server and attached both databases. I went into vb.net and put a datagrid on a form and pointed to the db and brought the data into a grid. I then opened that config file and copied the connection string into the web.config file. Still no luck. Get the same error message.

arrrrgh!!

Can I just confirm what operating system you are using? and what service packs have been installed (if any)?

Chris

Chris Ullman
Programmer/Technical Author
http://www.cuasp.co.uk

I'm using XP Pro sp2

Hi,
    Sorry it took me so long to get back on this one. I'll admit I was stumped. The plain answer is you should be able to add this account. So I did some surfing and found that you're not the only one with this problem. I'm not sure this is exactly the same problem but it's worth a try.

http://www.sqljunkies.com/Forums/Sho...stID=6658#6658

Also did you install the sql 2005 beta at any time before the final version?

Chris

Chris Ullman
Programmer/Technical Author
http://www.cuasp.co.uk

Hi,

The last post on this topic was 1/27. I bought this book today (2/20) and have spent several hours trying to get the WroxUnited web app to run using SQL Server 2005 with no success. I have read and re-read these posts, trying the proposed solutions. No joy. Is there now or will there be soon an authoritative solution to this problem?

Setup:
Windows 2000 Pro SP4
Visual Studio 2005 Standard
SQL Server 2005 Standard

Mike

Hi,
   The problem here isn't with the WroxUnited app or the book, but it with SQL server 2005 and ASP.NET 2.0. I haven't been able to recreate this problem myself as I didn't have SQL Server 2005, only SQL Express. I've been keeping an eye on newsgroups to see if an authorative fix comes up, but unfortunately no joy. To be honest I've had a lot of problems with Visual Studio 2005 and wouldn't recommend using it with the book, as it certainly needs patching IMO.

I've just received SQL Server 2005, so I will now install and see if I can recreate the problem, however if I can't I'm not sure where I can take it from there. The plain answer is Network Service should be there and it is a bug that it is not.

Chris

Chris Ullman
Programmer/Technical Author
http://www.cuasp.co.uk

Sooooo.... what do I do now? I think from what I've been learning on this this is related to having either a DNS server or DC server on the same machine as the one you are trying to run SQL Server 2005 on. Yet I have tried to configure this on my laptop also to no avail. I have posted my questions to the asp.net news group and they don't seem to have an answer either. Any new ideas?

Here is my post on the newsgroup. Its under the title "Use VS2005 with Sql Server 2005 and attach a .mdf (ASP 2.0)"

http://msdn.microsoft.com/newsgroups...5-5b799ac5b46d

Thanks
Greg