Yes... No firewall. And netstat shows it listening on the port... and without even going back to it I knew this to be true as the free Class-C version of...

Hehehe.  OK I can see you didn't read my first post... No the firewall was ruled out. I'll post back if I ever get it sorted. Thanks for your time though!

I checked one and see: Named Pipes and TCP/IP under enabled... under Properties for TCP/IP I see the same port number I connect to for the PC using OSQL (or...