something
Since you've installed with "Windows Only" you may have a few steps to take
before you can allow other users to access the database. Normally this
option works if the SQL Server is part of a domain, which I presume your
machines are not part of. You could try to create a user account on the SQL
Server that has the same name as the user your wife is using on her XP, with
the same password. This might work (I'm not sure).
An other option is to change the security to "Mixed mode", and create SQL
Server accounts. You may be able to change the licensing by way of the "SQL
Server 2000 Licensing" icon on the control panel. However the "Mixed mode"
option may be grayed out. In that case you could do one of two things:
1. Reinstall sql server in mixed mode (remember to back up your database
first)
OR
2. You could do this (cut from another posting found on Google):
Change the LoginMode value of the
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSSQLServer\ MSSQLServer registry key
(for default instance).
1 = Windows Only
2 = SQL Server and Windows
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Sincerely
Svein Terje Gaup
"Jack Wachtler" <jack_wachtler@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> Thanks in advance for your patience with my beginner questions.
>
> I have a SQL Server instance setup on my XP desktop (the 120 day
Evaluation Edition - V8.00.194). When I installed it I setup the instance
with "Windows Only" authentication.
>
> I have myself and my wife with XP user accounts and also have a guest user
account active. I created a database for practice, and would like allow
either my wife's account or the guest account to login and access the one
practice database, with select priviledge's only on tables. Ideally from
these "user" XP accounts, I would like to allow access to my practice
database only through the Query Analyzer Window. I don't want to allow these
accounts to see other databases or system tables. I don't want them to be
able to stratup Enterprise Manager or any tool other than Query Analyzer for
the one database.
>
> What are the steps I need to follow to create permissions? After I do
these steps, I want to log in through the guest account and see that my
security setup works.
>
> I have read the chapters in my textbook on security, but still don't
really get it. I guess I need a simpler example that I can practice for
myself.
>
> Your help in teaching a newbie is greatly appreciated.