Defined a SQL Server, which only user x (in the domain) is allowed to connect to and only by using windows authentication.
I am connecting to the computer using user x successfully.
I am running my website from visual studio successfully.
But when I am trying to access my website on IIS it fails because it is using a different user than x:
When my ASP.NET web site is trying to connect it fails because it is using user y.
The connection string does not specify a user and password it uses windows authentication.
where did user y came from? is it the user that IIS was installed with or log on with?
The SQL Server is not mine so I cannot add users or change the authentication method there.
Is there a way that IIS/ASP.NET to impersonate (is that the term) user x?
Do you have Integrated Security=True in your connection string?
If so it's going to try to use the anonymous/IIS_USER account to access the DB instead of what you have in your connection string.
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I have two servers, let's say they are APPSVR (ASP.NET) and DBSVR (SQL Server). Currently, the application running smoothly with database connection using SQL Server authentication with User Id and Password.
In the future, it must be changed with Windows Authentication Integrated Security=True. I have tried to change this but can't worked (DB connection failure).
We have domain controller also and both server in the same domain. I am not sure which one that must be configured in our environment (Domain/SQL Server/IIS Manager). What's the right procedure to do this?
Is your asp.net application already running with domain user authentication?
Do you need per user login for SQL server because you set up the
access right on domain user rather than create your own access right
system on your asp.net application?
Why i am asking you this? Because You need to consider the differences between web application and desktop application. In web application, the web server contact the sql server not the user pc.
So this complicate the setup if you want the web server to use the windows authentication to login to sql server then you need to set up the web server to somehow masquerade as the domain users. You also need to consider the scenario if user are accessing the web application from the internet.
I suggest using strong application only password for sql server connection using local user rather than domain Users. For access right you can simply create a new table to store domain user login id and their access right. This set up still allow login to web application using the domain Users but the database connection is not. The Advantage is you can minimize the access to simply few or even one user application only user you need to maintain in sql server rather than every domain Users that need to be registered on sql server if you use windows authentication.
If you still need the Windows Authentication set up than you can see the info here.
We recently had to change over to using Windows Auth instead of a SQL Account to access the DB from our ASP site. The trick is to have the application pool start up with the same domain account you use to access the SQL Server and then you can just change your connection string to use Integrated Security.
The process is shown here:
https://thycotic.force.com/support/s/article/Using-Windows-Authentication-to-access-SQL-Server-Secret-Server
I have installed a new web application that access a SQL Server database in a different server. I'm using Windows Authentication and get the error of:
Login Failed for user XXX
When I try to set identity impersonate="true" in the web.config file, it just throws an error
Login Failed for anonymous user
Also, I'm using forms authentication to validate users from my website and using a different application pool.
Update: connection string Basically like this:
Data Source=myServerAddress;Initial Catalog=myDataBase;Integrated Security=SSPI;
Update:
My Virtual Directory has Anonymous Authentication and Windows Authentication enabled.
Typically ASP.NET runs as an anonomous account. In order to access a remote SQL Server using integrated authentication (SSPI), you'll need to have a bit more "permenant" presence. Easy way would be to shift the app pool to use the NETWORK SERVICE built-in account. Slightly trickier would be to use a named account. On the SQL server side of the equation you will need to give the same account -- either matching user/pass or NETWORK SERVICE -- proper permissions to your database.
Your DBA should be able to help.
It is difficult to provide you with an exact answer because you have not provided your connection string or info on your SQL Server config. Your best bet is to look at the IIS configuration and work out what user is attempting to access the different SQL Server. You then need to give this account access to the database. This is a common problem and most of the changes need to happen in SQL Server unless you can change the account that the web server is running under.
I use a dbml for my Data Access Layer to provide the data that i need in my app.
When i connect from the server explorer everything seems fine. I choose to use my windows authentication and the connection test shows everything works just fine. When i Build my solution and run it on my IIS it says that i'm using a login that is not working.
How to solve this issue?
The web site will be logging in to the SQL Server using the identity of the application pool of the web site, you have to grant that user (normally network service) access to the database.
When you try to connect from server-explorer and chose windows authentication, it uses currently logged in user to authenticate with the sql-server. You must be logged in as Administrator of the local system so it lets you in using windows authentication.
But when you run your application through IIS, and try to authenticate using windows authentication it uses local system aspnet_user account to authenticate which must not have authorization to access your database. You need to authorize aspnet_user to access your database and it will work.
A recommended practice is to not
authenticate using windows
authentication but to use sql server
authentication which will work in every context.
Did you define the appropriate connectionstring in your web.config?
I am using SQLServer2005 and VS2008. My connection string in web.config is:
add name="library" connectionString="Data source=KMT; Initial Catalog=Library;Integrated Security=SSPI"
Here, KMT is my server name, Library is my database.
When I run my page through VS2008 localhost, it's fine. However, when viewing through IIS it shows an error message like "login failed for user, 'KMT/ASP.NET'". My sqlserver authentication mode is windows and it's ok in web.config. What will be the solution?
Using "Integrated Security" means logging in to the database with the identity of the user running the process. When you run the local VS web server, it runs as your login. But in IIS, the web server worker process runs as a predefined user account. Your worker process identity must have rights to your SQL Server and database.
Check the properties of your App Pool in IIS. If you are running as Network Service for example, go into SQL and create a new user, enter Network Service as the Windows user name, and grant that user rights to your database.
one of my friends helped me to solve this problem as
i executed the SQL to add ASPNET as a login to
my DB and setup DA permissions
exec sp_grantlogin N'MACHINE\ASPNET'
exec sp_defaultdb N'MACHINE\ASPNET', N'Database'
use Database
exec sp_grantdbaccess N'MACHINE\ASPNET', N'ASPNET'
exec sp_addrolemember N'db_owner', N'ASPNET'
here MACHINE is machine name and database is my database name.
but through this the ASPNET user has total
control over that DB.
VS2008 uses your credentials to authorize to the db, IIS is using different account.
Make sure the IIS account has enough permissions.
If you use Integrated Security=SSPI, the credentials of the current user (in VS that would be YOU) are used to connect to SQL Server.
From an IIS app, the user associated with the IIS service is used for log in.
Solutions:
Assign the IIS service a special user that's allowed to connect to SQL
Use SQL Server authentification to access the database, and stored username/password in the connection string
Were you planning to use the ASP.NET system account or the users windows account?
If the latter you need impersonation. That works if SQL and IIS are on the same machine, otherwise it is a double hop and requires a non trivial amount of work to set up delegation.
If the server is windows 2003 you can give the Network Service the permissions to access to SQL Server
I am having a problem with deploying a ASP.NET V2 web application to our deployment environment and am having trouble with the sql server setup .
When I run the website I get a Login failed for user 'MOETP\MOERSVPWLG$'. error when it tries to connect to the database.
This seems to be the network service user which is the behaviour I want from the application but I don't seem to be able to allow the network service user to access the database.
Some details about the setup. IIS 6 and SQL Server 2005 are both setup on the same server in the deployment environment. The only change from the test setup I made is to point the database connection string to the new live database and of course copy everything over.
My assumption at this point is that there is something that needs to be done to the SQL server setup to allow connections from asp.net. But I can't see what it could be.
Any Ideas?
It sounds like you're able to connect to the database alright and you're using integrated windows authentication.
With integrated windows authentication your connection to your database is going to use whatever your application pool user identity is using. You have to make sure that the user identity that asp.net is using is on the database server.
If it is a fresh install not everything may be setup. Check SQL Server Configuration Manager, http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms174212.aspx. Step by step instructions http://download.pro.parallels.com/10.3.1/docs/windows/Guides/pcpw_upgrade_guide/7351.htm.
The user name you've indicated in your post is what the Network Service account on one machine looks like to other machines, ie "DOMAIN\MACHINENAME$".
If you are connecting from IIS6 on one machine to SQL Server on another machine and you are using Network Service for the application pool's process identity then you need to explicitly add 'MOETP\MOERSVPWLG$' as a login to the SQL Server, and map it to an appropriate database user and role. Type that name in exactly as the login name (minus quotes, of course).
Make sure there is a login created for the user you are trying to log in as on the sql server.
There's a few different things it could be.
Are you using integrated windows authentication? If so, you need to make sure the user ASP.net is running as can talk to the database (or impersonate one that can).
Does the web server have permission to talk to the database? Sometimes a web server is deployed in a DMZ.
If you are using a SQL Server login, does that same login exist on the production server with the same permissions?