On trying to create a new ODBC connection i get the error, access denied or
server cannot be found.

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"Kevin3NF" wrote:

> What is the error message?
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> "JumpingMattFlash" <JumpingMattFlash@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message news:C557AD06-BC32-4382-97AA-0E7E433F772F@microsoft.com...
> > 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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