jwcolby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Mon Jun 6 10:14:28 CDT 2011
Strange, I just received this email this am. You may need to go into surface configuration and tell it to allow tcp-ip (in addition to or instead of named pipes) as well as to allow remote connection. Google those two things. I think by default, allow remote connection is disabled. John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com On 5/15/2011 11:10 AM, Arthur Fuller wrote: > Lately I've been rebuilding my main box. It's running Windows 7 Ultimate > 64-bit, and SQL 2008 Enterprise 64-bit.The SQL installation seemed to go > perfectly, but when I try to run Management Studio I am unable to connect. I > get a message saying "a network or instance-specific error occurred while > establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or was not > accessible. Verify that the instance name is correct and that SQL Server is > configured to allow remove connections. (provider:Named Pipes Provider, > error: 40 - Could not open a connection to SQL Server, error: 2). > > This I can however open > _______________________________________________ > dba-SQLServer mailing list > dba-SQLServer at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-sqlserver > http://www.databaseadvisors.com > >