It's the other way around.

The data is in an SQL server and I'm connecting from excel to SQL server. I then put the data on an excel sheet to...

Here is the connection string.

Provider=SQLOLEDB.1;Password=mypassword;Persist Security Info=True;User ID=myuser;Initial Catalog=RINER.Cellulaire;Data Source=10.62.250.77\sqlserveraccept

The IP is local to both computers (win7 & XP)

Hi,

I downloaded and installed it on to my XP vm and it didn't make it work.

Do you think it could be some driver that gets installed with office 2010?

Because the...

Any idea?

Humm.. but my test.udl still doesn't successfully test the connection. So it's really more than Excel only.

How can I see the driver you are referring to? I mean it's the...

That's interesting... after spending hours to upgrade my xp box to install SSMS, I just found out I actually can connect to SQL Server using SSMS, but still can't using...