Hello,

I'm just trying to install my first YAF forum and I'm hanging on the screen where I have to type in the forum name and create the admin account.

It tells me "unable to connect to database"

What my Event Log says is:

My connection String:

I don't know where I did the mistake and I have to say that I'm still new to SQL Server. Maybe you can tell me which permissions I have to set for my asp.net user.

The "Forum" Database is created and the login also. I also added all the user mapping things there.

Thanks!

I don't use SQL Express, but let me Google that for you...

http://www.google.com/search?q=sqlexpress+Failed+to+generate+a+user+instance+of+SQL+Server+due+to+failure+in+retrieving+the+user%27s+local+application+data+path&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a 

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Yes.. I googled before. And tried most of the things. I'm restoring the VM now for the second time. Next thing I will do, is to setup the website without that stupid plesk wizzard. Its a small project for college, running on a virtual win2k3 machine.

Does YAF create some error logs during the installation? I don't understand that windows event message, because YAF has allready created its tables in the DB. So where is the connection problem??

I also have another DB for my main application running and everything is working right. (Same user, same webapplication, almost same connection string)

Thanks for any help!

Remotedesktop session any one? :roll: