Cannot connect to sql server

  • An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused by the fact that under the default settings SQL Server does not allow remote connections.(Provider : Named Pipes Provider, error: 40 - Could not open a connection to SQL Server) ( Micorsoft SQL Server, Error: 53)

    My sql server version : 9.00.1399.06

    I tried to resolve by following this article but still same error.

    http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;914277

  • can some one help me in this.. its really urgent.

  • What kind of connection are you trying to establish? What application? Are you on the other side of a firewall from the server?

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  • do you have named pipes enabled on both the server and remote side? are you able to connect from another machine? have you typed in the server name correctly? are you able to ping the server?

  • I am trying to connect to my database instance through windows authentication. also I configured windows firewall to allow sql server

  • Is the database server set up for Windows/Mixed authentication?

    What application are you trying to connect from?

    Are both machines (client and server) on the same domain?

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