Re: unable to connect to sql server remotely

Did you change the tcpip address or the port sql server is using? Is it a default or named instance?

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"Matt" <Matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:uoLB5gdMIHA.4912@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Here is my issue. I installed SQL 2005 on one of my servers. Up until 10 minutes ago I was able to connect to the server remotely using SQL Server Management Studio but I was unable connect to the SQL server from the actual server that the SQL 05 instance resides on. Now, I restarted the SQL Server, and DB engine service and now I can connect to the SQL database from the actual server but not remotely. I have it configured to allow remote connections and have it setup to use TCP/IP or Named Pipes and still nothing. I've restarted the db engine service and all of the other SQL services and I still can't connect to it remotely.


Any suggestions on what could be causing this? I get this error when I try to connect remotely:

'An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server. When connecting SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused by the fact that under the default settign SQL does not allow remote connections....'

Now I also got that same error message when I logged onto the actual server that the SQL 2005 instance resides. I did fix that and now I'm able to log in to SQL SMS from the actual server but not remotely.

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