"Simon Hayes" <sq*@hayes.ch> wrote in message
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| <no****@noname.com> wrote in message
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| > MSDE 2000 Release A installed under windows 2000 pro will not
| > communicate with SQL Server Manager nor MS Access on peer computer.
| > Can someone help?
| >
| > Have set DISABLENETWORKPROTOCOLS=0 at install time.
| >
| > Install log shows installation successful..
| >
| > Control Panel> Admin Tools> Services section shows SQL server instance
| > running.
| >
| > Disabling firewall has no effect.
| >
| > SQL Server Manager (icon at bottom right in task tray - this
| > starts/stops Server instances), on same computer as SQL Server
| > instance, shows only instance "H" which is the same as the computer
| > name. (This instance was uninstalled before new instance was
| > installed.) Typing new instance name ("H\ABC" and variations) into
| > top combo box produces error messages such as "wrong format for name",
| > "Network path not found" "RPC service not running". What is the
| > correct computer/name format?? Key problem is clearly that Service
| > Manager can't communicate with this local MSDE instance.
| >
| > All Windows 2000 updates from MS web site have been installed.
| >
| > Objective is to operate MS Access on computer X (also running Win 2000
| > Pro) with computer H as a peer that hosts MSDE.
| >
| > Has anyone else run MSDE 2000 Release A on a Windows 2000 Pro system??
| > ---
| > Mark Ferguson
|
| I must admit that I don't know the difference between MSDE Release A and
| MSDE SP3a. There is no clear information on the MS site (or at least I
| couldn't find it), but the download sizes are different, so the obvious
| conclusion is that they are different versions. If this assumption is
| correct, then you might be seeing this issue:
|
|
http://support.microsoft.com/default...10&Product=sql
|
| However, I could be wrong, so perhaps you can check some more things. Can
| you actually connect to the instance on H using a local osql.exe command
| also on H? If you're logged on to Windows as an administrator, then this
| should be enough:
|
| osql -S H\ABC -E
|
| If that works, then presumably the problem is the Service Manager itself
| (possibly as described in the article above). If you can connect, you can
| then check the version with this query:
|
| 1> select @@version
| 2> go
|
| If you don't see version 8.00.760, then you don't have SP3a, so I would
| completely remove MSDE and then install MSDE SP3a. See "Remove all known
| instances of SQL Server" in this article:
|
|
http://support.microsoft.com/default...91&Product=sql
|
| If you cannot connect with osql.exe, then what error message do you get? In
| the final analysis, however, I would suggest that Server Manager is a small,
| unimportant component which probably is not worth worrying about. As long as
| MSDE is running and you can connect from client applications with no
| problems, then I would not spend too much time trying to make it work.
|
| Regarding connecting from a different PC (with Access or any other tool),
| there are a number of possible connection issues:
|
|
http://support.microsoft.com/default...06&Product=sql
|
| I guess when you say "peer" you mean that the PCs are in a workgroup, not a
| domain. If this is the case, then trusted connections can be awkward - the
| article above has a link to another KB article which describes a possible
| workaround. Mixed security using SQL logins should work fine, but is not
| generally recommended unless there is no other alternative.
|
| Simon
|
|
MSDE 2000 Release A is a developer version (SDK) of Microsoft SQL Server 2000
Desktop Engine SP3a. SELECT @@VERSION returns the same version info for both.
This brief description of Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine (MSDE 2000)
Release A is quoted from the download page -
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MSDE 2000 Release A is functionally equivalent to SQL Server 2000 Desktop
Engine SP3a except for the following:
New licensing agreement
Removal of the merge modules that can be used to embed MSDE 2000 Release A
with applications
New ReadMeMSDE2000A.htm that contains information specific to this release.
This new version of MSDE contains all the fixes that are included with SQL
Server 2000 SP3a version of MSDE.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...DisplayLang=en
Additional information can be found in the Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Desktop
Engine
(MSDE 2000) Release A ReadMe
http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...eMSDE2000A.htm
Additions to the SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine (MSDE) Release A
ReadmeMSDE2000A.htm File
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=829925
Dan
