It seems that the term "Newbie" fits me like a glove

Apparently despite the autolocate server funtions in all the programs I tried don't...

Well... I used Eric's suggestion an the ODBC wizard found my server ... Now I wonder why can't the other programs find the server...

Tks for your help guys

Thank you all for your suggestions

Unfortunately I still haven't found the problem. I've added the TCP ports to the firewall exception list, I even disabled the firewall and still couldn't...

Tks Mark,

I've checked the link and in one of the tutorials they mention checking the HKLM/Software/Microsoft/MSSQLServer/MSSQLServer/SuperSocketNetLib/Tcp/TcpDynamicPorts registry key.

It happens I don't have this key. I only have HKLM/Software/Microsoft/MSSQLServer/Client...

As for the...

I have Windows XP Professional with SP2... What will I have to change to ensure that the firewall isn't blocking the server?

Thanks again

Alexandre