>On Microsoft's site it says
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>Microsoft Windows 2000 Server with Service Pack (SP) 4 or later; Windows 2000
>Professional Edition with SP 4 or later; Windows XP with SP 2 or later;
>Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition, Standard Edition, or Datacenter
>edition with SP 1 or later; Windows Small Business Server 2003 with SP 1 or
>later
>

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>So that's why I asked about home edition. I thought that a no go on home edition would confirm that it would be possible to install it on XP professional. But now you guys tell me that Windows Server is a minimum.
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>But then again yesterday I tried and tried and uninstalled and re-installed and it's been impossible to connect to SQL Server Server standard edition. Oh well I'll try with express edition.

Sorry for confusion. I didn't notice that you are using SQL 2005. I was refering to SQL 2000 requirements. Looks like MS changed them for SQL 2005 to allow installation on some workstations.