Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 06/20/31 11:48

An interesting observation. I have installed some Internet Firewall
Client on my box at work, as per request from my sysadmin.

When I connect from home, I now have troubles of accessing my machine,
and relevant to this thread is that some attempts to connect with
OSQL gave the message "Timeout expired". I am able to connect to the
machine with Remote Desktop and by file system. When I added the
option -l 30, to get a longer connection timeout, the only change
was that it took longer time for "Timeout expired" to appear.

I'm not saying that you have exactly the same problem as I have, but
at least it is an indication that my theory that the connection is
initiated, but then fails somewhere.

I had some more ideas that I should try, but alas now I only get the
message "SQL Server does not exist or access denied".

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Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se

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