I did not think to look either, as we don't use it here, but whoever setup this server forgot to turn it off.

I can now successfully connect via TCP

For anyone who is following this, by default Windows Server 2008 Enterprise blocks a lot of ports. All I had to do was add an exception for 1433 in...

So... after a week of fiddling, I still can not connect to the cluster.

I looked through the logs and found this after bounce both nodes of the cluster

"Server is listening...

Perhaps it was my ignorance, I used named pipes because I am unsure otherwise how to connect to a cluster.

I can not cannot to the virtual cluster named CN and...

Should I just create a physical table in the database and drop it when I'm done. Is that a better solution?