i tried installing sql server 2005 express... but when i came to installing last part, the database server, it gave me this error
help anyone
| SQL Server Setup could not connect to the database service for server configuration. The error was: {Microsoft}{SQL Native Client}SSL Provider: The certificate chain was issued by an authority that is not trusted. |
help anyone

SQL installation Error...
Falconetti
Brent Hunt
If I remember correctly, it was some "3a" patch for MSDE. I actually ended up going with SQL Express 2005 instead of MSDE, but it was having the same problem initially as well. I think the issue was that SQL didn't clean up after itself very well -- I resolved it by first uninstalling everything SQL via add/remove programs, then I went to the file system and deleted all SQL Server directories, and finally I ran regedit and deleted all the SQL software entries there. The next time I ran the install, everything worked ok.
Hope this helps, good luck.
Aarron
Liu Xiong
The first thing to check is the setup logs located in C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Setup Bootstrap\LOG\Files. Take a look at the log file with a name similar to SQLSetup####_ComputerName_Core(local).log for the most recent installation that failed. There will likely be more information near the end of the file about the failure.
Just to cover all the bases:
Thanks for the additional information.
Mike
CraigH
I am having the SAME problem...
Environment: Windows 2003.
Net framework 2.0 installed
I am using windows authenticantion for install and its a case sensitive db.
Did you figure out the solution to this error
Please let me know too...
Thanks
iveys
Hi,
Also trying to install on XP SP2 getting the same error.
What patch did you need to apply and did you manage to get past this error
Thanks
Lau_R
Mike,
Do you know how to fix this problem I'm getting the same error on Server 2003 SP1 for SQL Express 2005 install. I got the file from MSDN's web site.