help me Please!

Hi There!!

I have a code that runs from a different machine and a different site and i am facing a problem that i can not log in to the database.I installed SQL Server on my machine and I created a user "fadila" and SQL Server Authentication and the password is "fadil1977" and the database is "otters" and it is installed as tables and stored procedures but there is not data on these tables.

I used the method provided in the code so, i only change the "connStr" in one place rather than in 20 places and my code is as below. Can you please Help me to connect to the database. I Really..Really appreciate it if you help me to solve it as it causeing me a big head-ache and still get the error message "SQL Server does not exist or access denied" .. please help!!!!

 Friend Shared ReadOnly Property connStr() As String
 Get
 Return String.Format( _
 "Data Source={0};Initial Catalog=Otters;User ID=fadila;Password=fadil1977", _
 DatabaseMachine)
 End Get
 End Property

your help is appreciated!!!!!!Sure you can connect to the sql server?

Possible reasons:

* Firewall in between.
* Stupid admin. One who did not read that syou need a special service pack (SP3?) to run on 2003, and Winwodows Server 2003 actively blocks SQL Server ports unless this sp is installewd (at least).
* Bad setup for the network, not allowing name resolution.
* Bad database machine name?

Do you homework - there is nothing we can do here to help you, simply because we have no clue what the error is, simply because you do not provide enough info.|||Hi Thona!!

Thank you very much for your help and answering my question. You just said there is no enough information provided, can you please tell me what information is needed so i can post up for you. I just want to make one point, I used before in the previous project the dataset and connect to the database without any problem so, is that what you told me, it does not apply to the dataset and SqlAdaptor as it is a different way toconnect so, i will not have this problem.

I will speak to the IT admin about the you told me and get back to you so, please keep looking to this thread until you solve it for me or you get fed up :)

Thanks again