I'm currently having a very frustrating time trying to connect a newly
installed Win 2003 Standard Edition (R2) web server to an existing SQL server
2000 db.

The web server needs to connect to three db's in all, one being server 2005
and the other both being 2000. But for what ever reason one of the Sql server
2000 db's cannot be connected to via the new server.

If i try to ping the server, this works, however when i try to telnet on
port 1433, this doesn't connect to the server in question. The internal
firewall rules have been configured as far as we can tell (after all the two
other database servers work OK) to allow access but we've now got a bit
stumped.

Any ideas would be greatfully recieved!

Many thanks,
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