Right!! Thanks to you and Stephen for being heroic.

Michael

Ryan,

Thanks to your latest advice, I made sure those items were enabled, restarted services, worked out my syntax and flags, and successfully created the pubs database, so I'm on my...

Well, Ryan, I hate to take up your day with this. Here's what happened. I successfully turned on Name Pipes and TCP/IP. Then I got a message saying that I...

Hi Ryan,

Thanks so much for the advice. That is certainly a reasonable price for a more powerful version.

Yes, I am an administrator on this machine, which makes the whole thing...