I'm now connected to a network server. Thankyou all for your help. This has been a real learning experience.

I think my main problem is that...

Now we are getting somewhere, do you know how to:

verify that SQL Server is configured in Mixed Authentication Mode, and if it is NOT, then how to change it?

Triple...

Thanks Gail. I'm installing 2005 on vista. I see sqlprov.exe, does it do anything besides creating the BUILTIN\Administrators id? If I then try and log in with...

Grasshopper,

The service is running. Even though I tried to install so that the instance is on my local machine, where do I check server accepts remote connections?

Thanks.

I installed without an SA, I believe I told it to use windows authentication, so that my windows login would work, but dg does not work as you see....

Thanks Benjamin. I am using the default instance MSSQLSERVER. I see this INstance name in parens in the services manager. When I try to connect to...

Thanks and yes, SSAS was installed and is running. I guess the more major factor is that I can't connect to a server with the database engine. I...