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belindaj · January 2nd, 2006, 05:02 PM

I know this is an old post - but I am going through exactly the same issues - and I believe there is a problem with special characters in the password field at the point of config where it must pass the password value.

I was doing exactly the same thing - copying/pasting the DB username and passwords directly from my VB config file into the photopost config screen - and EVERY TIME it would not connect - I also verified no trailing or leading spaces, slashes, etc - but I did finally notice that if I re-entered the installation screen fresh - all the values were set as I had set them EXCEPT the password field - and every time - it truncated the password value I had typed/pasted after the $ sign, leaving only the first three alpha characters in the password field.

Once I created a new DB user and gave that an alpha-only password - it went right through.

January 2nd, 2006, 05:02 PM	#6 (permalink)
belindaj Junior Member Verified Customer Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 22	I know this is an old post - but I am going through exactly the same issues - and I believe there is a problem with special characters in the password field at the point of config where it must pass the password value. I was doing exactly the same thing - copying/pasting the DB username and passwords directly from my VB config file into the photopost config screen - and EVERY TIME it would not connect - I also verified no trailing or leading spaces, slashes, etc - but I did finally notice that if I re-entered the installation screen fresh - all the values were set as I had set them EXCEPT the password field - and every time - it truncated the password value I had typed/pasted after the $ sign, leaving only the first three alpha characters in the password field. Once I created a new DB user and gave that an alpha-only password - it went right through.