Today I was trying to access the web page from and getting following error
Error Message:Login failed for user . The user is not associated with a trusted SQL Server connection.
Web server and database are on different server and I am using Virtual machines (VMWare) for my development and DB server.
There can be problem in SQL server or IIS or application, so lets start with SQL Server.
SQL Server Settings: The security should be set for SQL Server and Windows Authentication.
The SQL server has the logins for authenticated users and has proper permissions as I also use development machine to maintain DB.
IIS: Open IIS and select properties and under directory security tab click edit button.
Uncheck Anonymous access and check integrated windows security; integrated windows security will enable users login to be used for authentication instead of IIS default user.
Now, lets put application web.config under microscope.
I have custom error tag to redirect error to default page
<customErrors mode="On" defaultRedirect="showError.aspx">
</customErrors>
This is good and for testing I set the Mode tag to off.
Connection string uses integrated security tag and set it to true.
"server=servername;database=TestDB;Integrated Security=true" />
Here is another tag identity. Ah! Impersonate is false and I want it false so I can have connection pooling.
<identity impersonate="false"/>
So where is the problem, all the setting seems right, why the heck it does not work.
I changes the identity impersonate tag to true and Voila! It works.J
For the time being I can work but it's not a solution. L Adding a login to SQL Server for IIS user of web server is also not going to work.