Monday, March 26, 2012

MSDE Running on Two Computers in Workgroup Mode

I have two PC running Windows XP Pro in Workgroup Mode. They both in mixed
authentication mode with blank sa password.
The usernames on each machine are the same and they have no password.
The problem I have is with merge replication. The replication fails with the
message "Login failed for user 'sa'. Reason: Not associated with a trusted
SQL Server connection."
Both computers use the local system account to start the SQL server agent.
If we connect manually to the database via ADO using the sa with blank
password we have no difficulties.
Can someone please advise where I am going wrong.
Thank you in advance.
Colin
Hi ,
There are a number of reasons why this error may occur:
Try using these steps:
1) Most probably you may not be able to logon on to the sql server using
windows authentication.
2) Try using windows authentication over named pipes instead fo tcp/ip to
connect to the sql server.
Make sure that you make use of an alias to do the task
This should fix the problem.
Girish Sundaram
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