>Web application are run by the ASP .NET worker process which runs under the machinename\ASPNET user. Did you give this account access to SQL Server?

Not that I'm aware of - I certainly didn't - and the SQL Server that I'm using resides on my laptop. Could this have happened when I installed .NET (i.e. as part of the install process)?

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>Don't.
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>Create an explicit SQL Server login and user and use SQL Server authentication.

OK

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>The other option is to use .NET impersonation feature. There's a setting in the web.config that tells the worker process to impersonate another account. I don't remember what the option is.

Thanks for the info.

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>-Mike