Tracert timing out doesn't surprise me at all. When I didn't have my firewall exceptions set properly, although I had enabled exceptions as identified in MS KB Article 914277...

I was not speaking of a firewall on the PC you are using when trying to connect to the remote db. My firewall exceptions needed to be set on...

I had the same problem last week. I created a SQL 2005 database server on the same server I was running SQL 2000 on. When I tried to...