Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 09/30/97 11:16

Dan (dan_barber2003@hotmail.com) writes:
> Thanks, Erland. I had found that article and gone through (as best i
> could) all the options but still had no joy. I have finally solved it
> though. On our desktops we have microsoft firewall client installed and
> enabled but on the laptops we dont. For some reason it seems that we
> cannot connect through our proxy server and a connection to sql server
> has to be done through this firewall client?? Even though i have solved
> the problem i am still not sure why this happened??

It sounds a little funny, I will have to admit. But being nowhere
close to a Windows networking expert, I don't have any explanations.

But if you have the SQL connection working, and also have the firewall
enabled on the laptops, that sounds like a double win to me.


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

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