>>That make's two of us. What are you doing? VB or C#. It's the latter for myself.
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>C# mostly in ASP.NET. They're kind of "web-happy" here, seeing every need as a web application. Sort of like the guy who has only one tool, a hammer, so, of course, everything's looking like a nail. :-)
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>>Well, I'm not so sure I understand the mechanism either. I recently (the past month or so), switched to a new laptop and can't recreate the old situation.
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>Yes, I'm still scratching my head on this one. The only way it'll work on my machine is to entering the actual machine name. None of the localmachine variations ( localhost, (localhost), local, (local), etc. ) work. If there is a switch switched somewhere I don't know what it is but would sure like to. If I learn anything else on it I'll let you know.
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>Bill

Is your SQL installation installed as the "default" install? I seem to remember having this problem, but can't remember the resolution. But, I think it was because SQL 7.0 was on the machine, so SQL 2000 installed as NOT the default server even though it turned off SQL 7.0.

BOb