I setup a new user login and attached it to a specific database on my server. I then opened up management studio on my local pc, connected to the database using the server IP and selecting the database and everything worked great!
Then I went messing with the default SQL server Public server role as I wanted only this one database to be shown to the user – not the full list of all our databases on the server. I removed the "connect" option from TSQL Default TCP/TSQL Default VIA/TSQL Local Machine/TSQL Named Pipes. This obviously broke what I had so I tried to re-add these settings but now every time I open the properties tab on the Public server role I see a warning message telling me:
Value does not fall within the expected range (SqlMgmt)
If I try to connect to my database on my local pc, it will connect but just see "System Databases – master and tempdb" and "Database Snapshots" which is empty. I don't see the actual database I mapped the login to.
Is there anyway to either restore the Public role to the default settings or a way to get my database to to actually display in management studio when I connect.
Thanks,
Rich
Best Answer
Well, this would be the script to restore the connection permissions to the defaults.
If that doesn't work, try stopping SQL Server, starting it in single user mode ("sqlservr.exe -m" from an administrator command prompt), connecting with sqlcmd.exe (which will default to the local default instance with Windows authentication), and running the script that way.