>>I have been experimenting with MSDE. Its a very nice!
>>Running as a service on an NT box works fine.
>>Running as a service on a Win98 box worked locally but I cannot create an odbc connection the Win98 pc from another pc.
>>I can ping the Win98 pc and even map a drive to it, so its not necessarily a networking issue. At least not an obvious one to me. Does anyone know if this should possible? If so what might be the trick?
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>>Thanks,
>>-Isaac
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>You should be using TCPIP protocol not the NAMED PIPES. The latter one is for NT OS only. I been using both MSDE and SQL Server 7.0. both runs in WIN95/98 platform.

Hello Jess,

You are correct. I was able to find that by default SQL Server is configured for named pipes which is not supported on Win9x. Also by default MSDE is expecting to use tcp/ip port 1433. When I run netstat on the Win98 pc I notice that there is no tcp port listening on port 1433. Could this be my problem?
Did you have to configure your Win9x pc in any special way?

Thanks,
-Isaac