I have created an application pool called \"schoolPool\" and assigned it to my web application. Identity for this pool has been set to LocalSystem. When I try to access my
Musakkhir's answer of granting sysadmin seems poorly thought out as far as security goes, and Pinal's answer involved giving the unknown process db_owner rights, still almost certainly overkill. I've 'solved' it myself by simply granting "public" rights, which normally just allows CONNECT, but nothing else, even SELECT. If gets rid of the login error and stops flooding the error log, since it now logs in, but whatever unknown process is doing the connecting still can't do anything.