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MarkE
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Posted - 2004-06-24 : 08:50:46
I am trying to connect to my SQL server over the net. The SQL server (2000 SP3a) is running on a dedicated server (OS W2K) using instances.

On teh local machine, I can use enterpise manager to generate a new connection xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx\instance and this works OK, but when I try to use Enterprise manager on an external machine to do the same, the remote machine fails to connect. SQL Server is using the default port of 1433, and TCP/IP is selected as an enables protocol in Network manager

Can anyone suggest waht might be the problem, and what I can do to fix it?

Thanks in advance

Mark

tkizer
Almighty SQL Goddess

38200 Posts

Posted - 2004-06-24 : 12:28:35
Can you ping the database server from the external machine? What is the error that you are getting?

Tara
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