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I have ArcGIS Server 10 with SP1 and SP2 on windows server 2008 and ArcSDE (from an edn liscense) installed on top of MS SQL Server 2008.

When I make a spatial db connection in ArcCatalog (direct connect) using DB Auth as user sde, then I change the version to dbo.Default instead of the sde.Default and the connection is in place. When I come back to the connection later and double-click the connection, ArcCatalog doesn't retain the user and password credentials for SQL Server and I am asked with a different looking dialogue (not the normal spatial db connection dialog) to re-enter credentials. Why would ArcCatalog not retain the info?

And how would this affect creating a feature service if at all?

Also I have the arcgissoc user with SQL Server instance login privileges as windows authentication only (not db authentication at the instance level) how would this affect creating a edit-able feature service?

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  • that sounds like a timeout in sql server.
    – Brad Nesom
    Aug 3, 2011 at 4:14
  • webhelp.esri.com/arcgisserver/9.3/dotnet/… I'll be right back with the 10 version.
    – Brad Nesom
    Aug 3, 2011 at 14:53
  • Sounding to me to be a Driver version issue, like your machine trying to do the Direct-Connect is not using the right driver. Did you update your SQL drivers recently?
    – D.E.Wright
    Aug 3, 2011 at 15:27
  • Why do you change from SDE.Default to dbo.Default?
    – Jamie
    Nov 2, 2011 at 3:50
  • Are you checking the box in the Connection Properties dialog to save the Username and Password?
    – Timothy Michael
    Jan 30, 2012 at 19:18

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link to connection string parameters
Not sure how to get this into arccatalog dialog though.
Users and Roles Overview

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  • Anyone have a link that shows esri's preferred way to configure users accounts in sql server?
    – Justin
    Aug 3, 2011 at 13:29
  • Woohoo... very loaded question... the way ESRI Prof services does this; and much of Tech-Marketing versus BPs goes diffenent paths. help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#//… points to a high-level doc, but keep in mind that RDBMS-DBAs often prefer things a little different and you can easily start a blood-fued if you can't have them understand why things need to be a certain way.
    – D.E.Wright
    Sep 2, 2011 at 17:55
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    @Justin, you have to assign privs on feature classes using ArcCatalog. That is the only reliable way. ArcSDE is going to take the most restrictive privs. The only reliable way that I have seen is to drop all privs on the feature class from the db then add them back using ArcCatalog.
    – Jamie
    Nov 2, 2011 at 3:49

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