Andrew, et al -

>Are you sure that the SQL Server is on the same machine as the Web server? It may easily have its own IP address.

It *did* have another IP address. We established that early in the day yesterday by PING'ing it.

It turns out that we needed to set up TCP/IP access instead of named pipes. Oh, and the ISP had given our client the wrong password. It only took sitting on the ISP's phone hold for one hour to get us the right password.

- George