Thank you very much, I got it to work within my local network. You were right on. I set the port to 1433 and now its good. Now that I...

On my personal machine that I am trying to connect to I had taken the shotgun approach and just shut off the firewall to prevent any problems. On my development...

Thank you Elliott for your quick reply, I followed your instructions here, I had already turned on the tcp/ip protocols. Still no luck as of yet.