Unable to open database remotely - asp.net

Pls help me, My newly created web application is using a SQLServer Express database. If I run the application in local machine its working fine, but if I try to open the database connection from another system in the network it is giving error Cannot open database . I have used connection string --
conn.ConnectionString = "integrated security=SSPI;data source=USER-CCE8C22332\SQLEXPRESS;" +"persist security info=False;initial catalog=Marketee";

i think you need to give access to the ASPNET user to access your database if you are using integrated security. The reason is that when the user connects to the website, the server-side processing is done via the user set up in IIS in teh application pool.
To test, what you can do is switch from integrated security to passing a username and login and see if you can connect then.

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Login failed for user '' IIS

Im currently trying to deploy my .NET MVC Application to IIS 7.5.
There is a database connection problem that im trying to figure out. In localhost, everything seems fine, however, when I deploy my app to remote server, the app runs, without connecting to database. For example I have a VisualLeadController that has getMonthlyLeadsByYear() method that connects to database and retyrns data. When I try to execute it from brower by typing
http://staging2.landornet.com/WebLeadsVisualizer/VisualLead/getMonthlyLeadsByYear
It generates this error:
Exception Details: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Login failed for user ''.
The steps that I followed:
1-Removed integrated security=True from WebConfig connection strings
2- Changed applicationpool identity from applicationPoolIdentity to local system.
Still now working... anyone has any idea?
When deploying your web app to your remote server, you will need to use a SQL connection string that contains an explicit username and password associated with a SQL account. For example,
Data Source=SERVER;Initial Catalog=DATABASENAME;User ID=SQLUSERNAME;Password=SQLUSERPASSWORD
To use this connection string, you will need to first use SQL Management Studio to create a SQL login with a username and password, and give that user access to your database. Then log out out of SQL Management Studio and log back in using that user/password to make sure that it correctly can access your database. Hopefully then your web app should be able to connect to the database.

SSISDB ASP.NET "Login failed for user 'DOMAIN\PCNAME$'"

I am using Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.IntegrationServices in an ASP.NET web form to access an SSIS project in SSISDB. Testing locally on my own PC I am able to access the package from the test server and it runs fine.
My issue comes up when I try to run the site from the test server. The same test server hosts the site with IIS 7 and hosts the Sql Server database which stores the package with Integration Services. So like I said, the package is hosted on the server and when I run the site locally on my PC, all works fine.
When I run the site on test and try to access the package I get:
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException (0x80131904): Login failed for user '[DOMAIN]\[PCNAME]$'.
I am using integrated security in my connection string:
SqlConnection connection = new SqlConnection(#"Data Source=[Test_Server];Initial Catalog=master;Integrated Security=True;");
IntegrationServices integrationServices = new IntegrationServices(connection);
My error comes up here when trying to connect.
I've tried adding '[DOMAIN]\[PCNAME]$' as a Sql login using Windows authentication with every permission I can think of. User mapping for database SSISDB has accessadmin, datareader, datawriter, owner, public, and ssis admin. I know not all of these should be needed, but I'm trying everything.
I went to SSISDB under databases, and gave the login permission to Connect, Execute, and Select.
Under Integration Services Catalogs I gave my folder, under SSISDB catalog, permission for the my Windows User ('[DOMAIN]\[PCNAME]$') login to Read, Execute Objects, and Read Objects.
I gave the SSISDataTransfer project permission for the Windows User to Read, Modify, and Execute.
I'm out of ideas and figure it's probably some IIS issue. It has Windows Authentication installed and set.
Anyone have any ideas? I've found posts about how to get the code to work, but nothing on connection specifics. Thanks!
i have had similar problem recently and i have worked with SSIS packages being used with web applications too. in my opinion you should use a custom user account to be used as your app pool account. and you will have to add this account to your database server. when running an app pool as local system or network service, the account being used for connection to a remote database server will be "DomainName\MachineName$" which will be different for every machine which tries to connect to your sql server. so instead of adding all these user names in sql, you will be better off using a custom user account.
Secondly looks like your web application does not run on the same machine as your sql server which i think will not work because you can invoke SSIS package from the same server only.
Another thing to try is to add a credential to sql server - in Security - Credentials in SQL Server management studio. This credential would be the authenitcated user that you are running it successfully under. Then in your SSIS package, in SQL Server agent, go into the job step and in the "Run As"drop down, select the new credential for your user that you created.

Can't connect to database on server

I cannot connect to my SQL Server database when running app on server.
Everything runs fine when debugging but when I run on the server as ASPNET the user is unable to login.
I created the dataabse in a test project then simply connected to this db. My connection string is
Data Source=.\SQLEXPRESS;AttachDbFilename=C:\Temp\Barry\fsr\FSR.mdf;
Integrated Security=True;Connect Timeout=30;User Instance=True
So this asp app runs on IIS 5 and when deployed the initial select works fine as my gridview that I have a binding to shows data but when I run the program (update the db) I hit the following:
[SqlException (0x80131904): Cannot open user default database.
Login failed.
Login failed for user 'hostxxxxx\ASPNET'.]
I am not creating this database programmatically as mentioned previously, simply connecting to an existing database.
The database is located on my c: - but I have added user ASPNET. How can I add this db to the program as a resource rather than reference a copy on c:?
My first question is this: If you have control of the server, why are you using an attached database. From:
AttachDbFilename=C:\Temp\Barry\fsr\FSR.mdf
There is no reason to attach if you can control the server. Attach the database to the actual instance in SQL Server, not with the bastardized version you have above. The bastardized version is useful on an ISP that does not give you access to SQL tools. Beyond that, it is more work than it is worth.
The second problem you have is authentication. There are a couple of ways to handle this. The easiest is set up a SQL user to access the database. If every user will have login credentials, you can keep the Windows Authentication method, but you have to turn off anonymous access, so every user GETS authenticated. As long as anon is a choice in IIS, it will default to anon and you will have issues. The third way is to impersonate a user for database access. I guess the fourth is open your database wide open, but I don't suggest destruction of security to make something "work".
If you have your database on a server, you need to use a server-based connection string - something like:
Data Source=servername\SQLEXPRESS;database=FSR;
Integrated Security=True;Connect Timeout=30;
Your user needs to have a login on the server, and a user in the appropriate database, in order to connect successfully.
See the ConnectionStrings.com web site for a huge list of possible connection strings - and what their settings mean and how you can change those.
You need to get into your database and assign the proper privileges to the account that is trying to access the database, which in this case looks like the built-in ASPNET account. Instead of the ASPNET account, you should use the NETWORK SERVICE account. You can change this through IIS.

Web.config Authentication Error

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

ASP.Net application cannot Login to SQL Server Database when deployed to Web 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?

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