Those were perfect! It made the hunt so much easier!!!

Thanks you

The Browser port was the show stopper.

Finally got it working. The issue was the firewall. I followed the steps in the following Microsoft article:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968872

Thanks for everybodies input.

So is there anymore ideas. I am really stuck, any ideas will be appreciated.

Yes, it is configured to accept remote connections.

Where do I do that at?

Figured out how to get the browser enabled so it is now currently runnning. But still not connecting.

Looking at the link you gave me, mainly this:

Connecting to a Named Instance requires going through a SQL...

The error reads when trying to connect to CRHAdbSRV\SQLEXPRESS

"A network-related or instance-specific error occured while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server is not found or was not accessible....

OH and one more thing. When you are in studio manager and you are going to connect to the server by using the Server drop down list and if you...

Yes we have enabled the TCP protocol and set the port to 1433. Also created a Inbound rule for it.