I'm trying to connect from the Management Console, so it must be a configuration issue. I'll look at the KB. Thanks


>>I have installed SQL 2005 Express on the server. When I try to connect from my workstation, I get:
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>>An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server.  When connecting to SQL Server 2005, this 
>>failure may be caused by the fact that under the default settings SQL Server does not allow remote connections.
>>(provider: SQL Network Interfaces, error: 28 - Server doesn't support requested protocol) (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: -1)
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>>Can someone shed some light please?
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>Kevin,
>Most likely you have a wrong connection string (even spaces around = matter) or it may be that your server is not really configured to be accessed from a remote location and firewall settigns are not done.
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>Check this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/914277
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>Cetin