I have an odd scenario.
I inherited a box that has SQL Server 2008 R2 on it already. The previous user connected to the (local) database with Windows Authentication using their Windows login.
I have a different Windows login. Is there any way for me to be able to log into the (local) database? The old user is no longer around, I don't know their password.
The easiest way is to get the other users password changed, and then login as that person, although this is only appropriate if you're connecting to a domain, using Active Directory etc.
Alternatively, if you are in the local administrators group, or can get yourself added to it, it's quite likely you can connect to the SQL Server instance as yourself with admin rights.
Finally... if you just want access to a particular database, copy the mdf and ldf files, and re-attach them to another instance.
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Good day, to make a long story short I was given access to an FTP server in order to upload files to an online website using FileZilla and was given the following:
FTP Username
FTP Password
FTP Server
Port Number
When I tried to asked our "consultant" about access to details to connect to a database server, I was told that I should know how to get in since I was given FTP server access.
However when I downloaded MySQL Workbench to try and edit the database, the the details (or parameters) are different to what I was given to access the FTP.
I would just like to know if I could access the database using FTP credentials or if both need completely separate details to connect. Thanks for any help/advice.
FTP (FileZilla):
SQL (MySQL Workbench):
EDIT:
I use xampp in order to edit an offline version of the database to test before I upload new code into filezilla. I added new columns with ease offline but It does not show online.
For more information:
I have another person editing database info on the online website
The offline version information is completely different and does not update.
I have added a new column in the offline database but there is no update on the website's online version.
This means that there is an online database that I cannot access since I do not have credentials.
FTP and database accesses are two completely different and unrelated things.
While it is possible that hostname, username and password might be the same for both (while still technically separate), port number must be different.
Maybe you are not supposed to have a database access. It may not be available remotely. Maybe only the server-side scripts can access the database (locally – on the server).
I Just Completed My Window Application,In Which I Use SQL Server 2008 as Back-End.
I Install My App With Database In Client Machine.
But Problem Is That My Client Can Also See My Database Using Sql Server Mangement Studio.
I Want to Prevent Client To See Database.
How can i do this?
That's the entire purpose of a database server. For any authenticated client to be able to connect to the server. That client may be your application or any other application - Management Studio being one of them.
You can either host your database server anywhere else and set up SQL server to only accept connections from your web application's server. But anyone that knows the IP, instance, and has the proper credentials can connect anyway from that server.
Or you can set up a user on SQL server for your application and configure your application to use that user. Now only the database administrator and that user can access that database.
But anyone that browses your application's configuration files will be able to pull the credentials anyway from there. Unless you are using integrated security, in which case the user your application runs under will be the only one to have access - assuming you grant that Windows user access to the database of course.
I guess the real question is, why are you trying to prevent someone from directly accessing the database?
I use SQL Server Management Studio to manage my SQL Server. I need to add a genericReadOnly and genericReadWrite to use when accessing it from automated vba code in Excel. The file that contains this code will be distributed to a number of people, more than I want to individually add to the server.
I've tried adding this generic user account, but get told
genericReadOnly is not a valid login or you do not have permissions.
The server admin believes that a username has to exist in Active Directory.
Is this standard, or is it a sitting that can be changed, if so how?
If you are using mixed authentication on your SQL Server, you can create a SQL Server login (via the security\logins tree on SSMS object explorer) and then a user on your database.
If you are using windows authentication only, then yes, you need an Windows login account mapped to that user.
To change the authentication mode... http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms188670.aspx
Not sure if this is the right forum for me to ask this question.
But I'm wondering does anyone having difficult using JustHost as web hosting provider in establishing remote access to their mysql database server environment?
What happened recently was that I'm trying to use mySQL ODBC driver connector via MS access to access their mysql database.
Originally I know what my username/password is and JustHost(well.. at least that's what I think they normally do) is set this similar setup for all other CPanel access such as your FTP, email, billing info, etc, etc.
Thus I tried using my username/password to logon into the mysql database via MS ACCESS's odbc connector. But I kept on being rejected to log in.
I started whether the password I used to log on my CPanel services would be different that the one used to access mysql via PHPAdmin window. Thus with that in mind, I forwarded the query to Justhost helpdeskteam.
Unfortunately they don't have a clue about this.
Thus that's what brought me here in this forum, begging this question - does anybody know what's the appropriate approach in remotely connecting mysql database environment via a web hosting provider such as Justhost.com?
Sorry for the elongated story.
Thought it would help to state the meaningfulness of my supposedly-trivial problem.
Log in to your JustHost account and scroll down to Remote MySQL. You need to add the IP address(es) of the remote server(s) to the list of Access Hosts.
I'm installing Windows Server AppFabric in a Windows 2008 R2 SP1 that is part of my domain. On the Configure Hosting Service, I would like to configure each AppFabric service on a separate Domain account. I've created the 3 necessary databases on a separate database server that is also part of my domain, and 3 domain users, and I've given each domain user db_owner privilege on it's respective database.
When I'm installing Windows Server AppFabric, and I try to set the monitoring configuration, and on the AppFabric Event Collection service account, I'm trying to use the domain user, but it keeps giving me Logon Failure: Unknown username or bad password, but the user and password are valid! On the same server, if I do a runas with the same domain user and password, I open any application I want.
Is there a restriction on using domain accounts for this? I've placed all 3 accounts as local admin and on AS_Administrators, to see if it helped, but it's no good.
After a LOT of troubleshooting, I found out how to configure it. Before the Windows Server AppFabric Configuration Wizard is opened, go to the Services, and configure the 3 services (AppFabricCachingService, AppFabricEventCollectionService and AppFabricWorkflowManagementService) with the domain users you want. Then, you open the Wizard, and the correct domain users will already be configured, and all you need to do is configure the database.
The post https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4733348/configuring-appfabric-with-remote-database also helped, along with the article http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff637739.aspx