Hello everyone!

When I’m running the application with CreateUserWizard control an error occurs which says

A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the instance name is correct and that SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections. (provider: SQL Network Interfaces, error: 26 - Error Locating Server/Instance Specified)

I tried to allow remote connections by enabling Named Pipes and TCP/IP as described in Appendix B, but I couldn’t expand SQL Server Network Configuration node there are not Protocols For SQLEXPRESS underneath. I also encountered with another error when tried to run SQL Server

Windows could not start SQL Server(SQLEXPRESS) on local computer. For more information, review the System Event Log.

What can I do in this situation?

Thanks in advance.

Hovhannes

Sounds like a setup issue with SQL Server Express to me. What does the Windows Event log say? How did you install SQL Server Express?

Imar

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Dear Imar thank you very much it's a great honor to get assistance from you.

The Windows Event log says

The SQL Server (SQLEXPRESS) service terminated with service-specific error 17058 (0x42A2).

I just downloaded Visual Studio 2010 Express from Microsoft.

Hi there,

I get quite a lot of results on Google for that error:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&s...l=&oq=&gs_rfai=

However, there's not a single, clear solution. It seems to do with security.

Can you go into the Windows Control Panel | Administrative Tools | Services and check which account SQL Server uses?

You may also want to read some of the resutls of the Google search to find out if they apply to you?

Cheers,

Imar

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