HELP: SQL Server Service can't start up!

I installed SQL Server 2000 on a PC which is on a domain "DOMAIN" and it
uses Windows XP Professional. I used Windows Authentication Mode (instead of
Mixed-Mode). SQL Server 2000 starts up successfully.
Then I installed on a standalone PC which is part of a workgroup "WORKGROUP"
(instead of a domain) and it uses Windows XP Professional. I selected
Windows Authentication Mode. There was a dialog for me to enter my login
details and it already had fields entered, eg:
Username: Owner
Password: <BLANK>
Domain: WORKGROUP
This standalone PC only has one user account "Owner" which is bounded to the
Administrator (the 1st account Windows XP creates for you). The password for
this account is blank. The installation process was successful. But when SQL
Server Service Manager tried to start my SQL Server, it says login failure.
Just wondering, does SQL Server 2000 doesn't like blank passwords and
auto-fails immediately? Or does it have to be on a domain? I cannot use
Mixed-Mode as my development application doesn't work with Mixed-Mode.
Andrew
ERROR.LOG and/or Event Viewer have some info?
Does the MSSQLSERVER Service start automaticaly and under Local System
account?
"Andrew Wan" <andrew_wan1980@.hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>I installed SQL Server 2000 on a PC which is on a domain "DOMAIN" and it
>uses Windows XP Professional. I used Windows Authentication Mode (instead
>of Mixed-Mode). SQL Server 2000 starts up successfully.
> Then I installed on a standalone PC which is part of a workgroup
> "WORKGROUP" (instead of a domain) and it uses Windows XP Professional. I
> selected Windows Authentication Mode. There was a dialog for me to enter
> my login details and it already had fields entered, eg:
> Username: Owner
> Password: <BLANK>
> Domain: WORKGROUP
> This standalone PC only has one user account "Owner" which is bounded to
> the Administrator (the 1st account Windows XP creates for you). The
> password for this account is blank. The installation process was
> successful. But when SQL Server Service Manager tried to start my SQL
> Server, it says login failure.
> Just wondering, does SQL Server 2000 doesn't like blank passwords and
> auto-fails immediately? Or does it have to be on a domain? I cannot use
> Mixed-Mode as my development application doesn't work with Mixed-Mode.
>
|||It doesn't have 2 be on a domain.
Test it by giving the local user account a password an restart the sql
service.
Greetz,
SQLWIZ
"Uri Dimant" wrote:

> Andrew
> ERROR.LOG and/or Event Viewer have some info?
>
> Does the MSSQLSERVER Service start automaticaly and under Local System
> account?
> "Andrew Wan" <andrew_wan1980@.hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:Ox$roroIHHA.816@.TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>
>
|||Hi
I'm only a novice in this field - but I had what appears to be the same
problem a few weeks back, where my SQL server service was logging in with
Windows authentication that wasn't the primary admin account (although it had
admin access). Anyway - due to a network enforced user login password
rotation - I had to change the login password and forgot that the SQL server
service was still associated with the older password. So the SQL server
service wasn't starting...login failure. As I was doing other work at the
time on the server it took a little while (longer than it should have ;-P) to
consider that it was the password change that stuffed the service startup. I
changed the authentication of the service to use the real admin
authentication (which remains outside of the network password rotation
scheme/policy) and the server services have started fine everytime since.
Cheers
Tim
"Hate_orphaned_users" wrote:
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> It doesn't have 2 be on a domain.
> Test it by giving the local user account a password an restart the sql
> service.
> Greetz,
> SQLWIZ
> "Uri Dimant" wrote: