From: brunocam@libero.it   
      
   Erland Sommarskog was thinking very hard :   
      
   > The error message talks about named pipes, and the error code is 5, which   
   > usually means "Access is denied". There could be two reason it is trying   
   > TCP/IP: TCP/IP is not enabled on the client, or it using named pipes as a   
   > fallback when TCP/IP fails.   
   >   
   > You could try enabling Named Pipes on the sarver, but I don't really   
   > recommend it.   
   >   
   > Instead try specifying the server as SERVER,tcp to force TCP/IP to see what   
   > error message we get this time.   
   With "SERVER,192.168.1.204" I get Error 87 and Error 0   
   With "SERVER,tcp" the same 87 and 0   
   >   
   > Also try to make the connection from the command line with SQLCMD. It should   
   > give the same error, but you never know.   
   Command line SQLCMD from where?... not from Dos Prompt.   
   And what sintax?   
      
   Bruno   
      
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