>>Hi all,
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>>I've cmoe across a weird situation that I can't get around. A customer has an SQL instance on a server and we want to start using it. Standard enough so far and I wrote a small prg that connect to the SQL server and inserts a row. On the Server it works no problem, with both windows authentication and SQL authentication in the connection string.
>>The problem is that on the network if I try to run this simple program it fails. The program does not make a connection to the server. I have tried opening ports on the server and the client pc but no difference. I have also tried turning off the AV but no difference. I've gotten it to the point where I can telnet to the server on port 1433 but still the connection fails. Initially the telnet was failing as well but I changed the dynamic port in the SQL configuration.
>>On a different client PC i installed sql server 2008 and then was able to use my program to insert into the SQL database on the server, but I can't go installing SQL on every client PC.
>>Server is Win server 2008R2 and SQL server 2008. There were 3 instances of SQL running, 2 have now been uninstalled as they are no longer used.
>>Any idea on what to try next or any tool to use? I've googled and confirmed all the regular settings are correct.
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>>~M
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>Are we sure that the SQL Server client tools, are installed on the machine we are trying to connect from
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>Bill Sutton
They were, but on the hosting server where the initial testing was done it had version 10, but I never thought to check the client version as it was older.
~M