Remote connections

  • I need to enable remote connections in my server for which i had tried enabling it in surface area configuration but for clustered server we have different procedures it seems..can any one help me on this?????

  • Hi Premkuttan,

    Whether a standalone instance or a clustered instance, in SQL Server 2005 remote connections are enabled \ disabled through the Surface Area Configuration tool, under the Surface Area Configuration for Services and Connections option.

  • when i select surface area configuration for services and connections and click on remote connections it shows a msg like"you cannot configure surface area for clustered services by connecting to a computer name.connect to the virtual sever to configure clustered services"

  • So if the full name of the clustered instance is MYSERVER\INST1, then the name that you have to feed the configuration tool is MYSERVER (in other words the name of the virtual server that you gave when you installed the cluster originally, minus the instance name).

    With a clustered instance, you cannot connect the tool to the physical server name, only the virtual server name.

  • Now i enabled the remote connections in my production server

    but still it shows unable to establish a connection to SQL server

    what are the other steps i need to consider to establish a remote connections?????

  • By default remote connections should be enabled anyway on everything except Developer Edition, so it is surprising that you needed to configure that.

    That should be all you need to do to enable remote connections anyway, are you seeing any kind of an error message when you try to connect? Is there anything in the SQL Server logs to give us a clue?

  • Remote connections ?

    - to linked servers ?

    - for your applications ?

    Did you enable TCP/IP for your instance ? Use Server configuration manager to enable tcp/ip.

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