>>Trying to work with existing system in SQL Server2000. Brand new VB.NET project for reporting purposes. PDC is off of NT4 box.
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>>Is the problem that machinename/ASPNET is doing the conncetion, and they are not understood in the PDC back in NT4 days??
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>>TIA
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>Stephen,
>I don't think this has to do something within MM itself. PDC is known in NT4 days but since you're using sa/pwd you're not using PDC at all (which is not recommended). You're using SQL server authentication. Is necessary libraries loaded for SQL server? Is it listening on a TCP port? Is it configured for default port? What's your connection string (except pwd itself)?
>A typical connection that works:

Actually it was a problem with the web.config. I was using a SQL Server but dataaccess for for OLEDB. I never looked at the next lower line for the longest time.