This error is quite common when you are trying to run stsadm commands with a user that does not have the required permissions for the database. You should use your server admin account, which you installed SharePoint with in the first place.
You will often see it using stsadm commands that you supply a username and password to.
Example:
stsadm –o setconfigdb -connect –databaseserver SQLServer2008 -databasename Sharepoint_AdminContent -farmuser mydomain\myuser -farmpassword mypassword
Some have even reported that doing this won’t work for them. They must be logged in as the user they are giving the credentials for. To avoid this you can open a command prompt as that user instead of switching to it.
Go to “Run” in Windows and type this for the above:
“Runas /user:mydomain\myuser cmd.exe”
You will be promped for the password of the user, and commands input into the command prompt should run as that user. You should even be able to run the above stsadmin command without providing username and password.
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