I've been creating new sde connection files in python (IDLE) just fine using the following code:
import arcpy
SDEPath = "Database Connections"
SDEName = "Connection to myservername.sde"
serverName = "myservername"
serviceName = "5151"
databaseName = "mydatabasename"
authType = "OPERATING_SYSTEM_AUTH"
arcpy.CreateArcSDEConnectionFile_management(SDEPath , SDEName, serverName, serviceName, databaseName, authType)
These connections work just fine, they show up in ArcCatalog, etc. When I attempt to use the same code in the ArcGIS python interpreter, I get the following error and no connection is created:Runtime error <class 'arcgisscripting.ExecuteError'>: Failed to execute. Parameters are not valid. ERROR 000840: The value is not a Encrypted String. Failed to execute (CreateArcSDEConnectionFile).I get the same thing when I set SDEPath = r"C:\myworkspace"
or any other literal path string.Anyone have an idea of what is going on here?
