Question

I have an ASP application trying to access a database in SQL Server 2008. Here is the connection string in web.config

<add name="dbConn" connectionString="data source=testsqlserver; initial catalog=test_db; user id=dbadmin; password=test"/>

I followed the instructions for creating a user and login here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa337545.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa337562.aspx

I restarted the sql server and browser services just in case but I am still getting the “Login failed for user ‘dbadmin'” error.

Am I missing something?

Answer 1

Make sure you have SQL Server and Windows Authentication mode selected:

How to: Change Server Authentication Mode