Hello,
I have researched and researched but yet found a solution regarding error message “18456, Severity: 14, State: 8”, reason: password did not match that for the login provided.
Basically I have developed an asp.net website to host crystal reports with a login and roll membership. It is a pretty simple website that will allow management and other employees to view certain reports for the company depending on their roll.
I’m using 4.0 Framework with SAP Crystal Reports in VS 2010. My ODBC connection “both unit and system testing” is a 32 bit driver set to SQL server authentication using a login ID and password. The website is hosted on Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard using IIS 7.5.
The website is configured on IIS 7.5 to use the 4.0 Framework and its pipeline mode to use “Classic”. My site’s application pool is set on “NetworkService”.
The username is NOT a domain name, but a username we created on SQL Server “SQL Server 2008 R2” for accessing specific databases. We have used this username in many websites currently in production and had no issues with it.
My database log indicates “Login failed for user 'xxxxxx'. Reason: Password did not match that for the login provided. [CLIENT: 999.99.9.999]. Error: 18456, Severity: 14, State: 8.
The password is not wrong because we are using this username with the same password in other websites that work perfectly. I don’t know if this is a Crystal Reports issue or a webserver issue.
Please let me know what I can do to fix this annoying problem.