When I try to setup the microsoft SQL Monitor, after I click on one of my instances, I get the login window, after I check the “Use Windows Authentication” i get the following error:

Authentication failed. Check the login and password, and ensure that the server is configured for remote connections

My question is where do I check the login and password?

Thank you.

HL

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On the SQL Server open ‘SQL Server Enterprise Manager’

Expand the tree until you get to the SQL Server in question then right click on it and select properties.

Click on the Connections tab, and check ‘Allow other SQL Servers to connect remotely to this SQL Server using RPC’

regards,

I don’t see that option, I am using MS SQL Server 2008

Oh sorry, you needed login and password help.

Open the Enterprise Manager on the SQL Server, and browse to the Remote Servers option under the Security folder.

in the right hand window, right click on the server and left click Properties.

Let me know if that helped.

Regards,

I have SQL 2000 and 2005. I know that 2008 changed dramatically, not sure how to configure it…sorry.

Ok, got more info, I think the problem is in spiceworks and not the SQL server, I use the SQL management studio remotly so I’m sure that side is correct, but when I ran a trace on the SQL server, I see a falied login from ‘domain\spiceserver1$’ user, which does not have access to SQL, is there any way that I can change spice works to use my login info instead of the spiceserver1 user?

Ok, I found the answer, when setting up spiceworks to run as a service, I did not specify any account to run the service, as a result the spicworks picked a local account and it did not have access to a lot of my network resources, including SQL server, to fix the problem I put in the right credential to run spiceworks as a service and restarted the server, problem solved.

HL

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This is just what I needed. I was having the same problem. Thanks a ton!

Excellent…I was wondering what I had missed. Cheers Ian