My application does basic CRUD operations over an external .mdf file. The database file is created separately in SSMS. On my PC, everything works perfectly fine. When I install it on someone else's computer, it refuses to connect to the database. The other PC also has the same database at the exact same location.
The connection string I am using is (in app.config):
conString=Data Source =.\sqlexpress; Initial Catalog = dbName;
Integrated Security = True; Pooling = False
In my code:
dbConnection = new SqlConnection(Settings.Default.conString);
The other PC has SQL Server installed as well. Tried going through almost all the results but almost all of them suggest either
Adding the existing database with the project. I can't seem to do that because when I try that I get an error:
permission denied
I can't rewrite the whole code with a service based database pre-attached to it.