Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 05/17/05 17:22

Dan (dan_barber2003@hotmail.com) writes:
> Hi, I have an access 2003 database which connect to sql server via a
> DSN that goes through a VPN. The database works fine and everyone can
> coonect from their normal computers but for anyone working on their
> Laptops (IBM Think Pad T42's) they cannnot connect to the datasource.
> The DSN fails upon connection attempt with :
>
> Connection Failed:
> SQLState: '01000'
> SQL Server Error: 1326
> [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][DBNETLIB]ConnectionOpen
> (Connect()).
> Connection Failed:
> SQLState: '08001'
> SQL Server Error: 17
> [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][DBNETLIB]SQL Server does not exist
> or access is denied.

The problem is that the laptop somehow does not find the SQL Server.
This KB article discusses posible reasons:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q328306


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

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