>>Then - how can I explain this
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>It's a computer <bg>. Sometimes I hate these things.
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>Can you PING the SQL Server box over the Internet?
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>-Mike

yep - and I know it's getting hit with the connection string because the error reports "unable to establish a connection" as opposed to "server not found" if I pass it a bogus IP.

Interstingly AERROR in VFP shoes 2 error rows, the second one (2,3) says:

[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][Named Pipes]ConnectionOpen (Createfile())

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I should mention that this server is working perfectly on its LAN and, as I said, works fine for me over the Net if I map I drive in the domain first.

TIA