Adding to Geoff's comment: Using the Coldfusion administrator, if the database connection doesn't validate, then there is no Coldfusion connection to the database.
This may help: http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/7/htmldocs/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=ColdFusion_Documentation&file=00001743.htm On Dec 29, 2008, at 12:01 PM, modius wrote: > > This does not appear to be a FarCry issue -- but rather a MSSQL > datasource set up problem. > > You need to nominate a valid username and password for the > datasource. ".dbo" is extremely unlikely to be the right username > -- .dbo is typically the default database owner for the database > schema itself. Also its very unlikely that the database will have no > password assigned. Without a valid username and password for the > datasource you might be better off running a database locally like > mySQL or Postgres or even MSSQL Express for development. > > Make sure you have a valid datasource connection verifying correctly > in the ColdFusion administrator before attempting to install FarCry. > > Hope that helps, > > -- geoff > http://www.daemon.com.au/ > > On Dec 28, 1:59 am, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: >> I cannot install Farcry 5 in neither Mac OS nor Win XP. >> >> The problem I countered in Win XP was how to create a data source >> with >> MS SQL server. >> I always got this message: >> "Connection verification failed for data source: Farcry5 >> java.sql.SQLException: [Macromedia][SQLServer JDBC Driver]Error >> establishing socket to host and port: 127.0.0.1:1433. Reason: >> Connection refused: connect >> The root cause was that: java.sql.SQLException: [Macromedia] >> [SQLServer >> JDBC Driver]Error establishing socket to host and port: >> 127.0.0.1:1433. Reason: Connection refused: connect" >> >> These are steps I have done: >> 1. Data source name: Farcry5 >> 2. Driver: MS SQL server >> 3. Database: farcry (the blank database I created in MSSQL for >> farcry) >> 4. Server: 127.0.0.1 >> 5. Port: 1433 >> 6. Username: .dbo >> 7. Password: (I left blank here) >> Then I submitted and got the above message. Can anyone help me >> please? > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "farcry-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/farcry-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
