What is the error message?

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"JumpingMattFlash" <JumpingMattFlash@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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> 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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