Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 07/18/07 21:42

TerpZebra (terpzebra@gmail.com) writes:
> I am having difficulty connecting to SQL Server 2000 on one of our
> servers via a VB6 program on Vista. I can connect fine to a different
> server, but it gives me the following error with the server in
> question:
>
> "Unable to connect to database. Please check your internet connection
> Error# -2147467259
> [DBNETLIB][ConnectionOpen (Connect()).]SQL Server does not exist or
> access denied"
>
> Using the program, I am able to access the database just fine while
> running on Windows XP, but when I run the program on Vista, it gives
> me that error message for that server. If I change the connection
> string to a different server address, it works fine on Vista. What
> differences in the servers might cause this?
>
> Here is my connection string:
> "driver={SQL Server};Server=ipaddress;Uid=userID;Pwd=pwd;database=db"

Difficult to say. Is SQL Server running on port 1433 on both servers?




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Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se

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