> Check wheter the firewall of the XPs opened up the port to connect to the
> msde, if not open up.
> For a fast try deactivate the firewallfor checking, if its working open up
> dedicated ports.
>
>
> HTH, Jens Süßmeyer
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> "Robert A. DiFrancesco" <bob.difrancesco@comcash.com> schrieb im
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>> My clients are reporting they cannot connect to the msde database using
>> my application - generic failed to connect message.
>> My software application installs the MSDE. Their computer is a brand new
>> machine with XP-sp2 installed. The sp2 is not an upgrade. We have only
>> seen this phenomena with a machine where we cannot uninstall sp2. On
>> machines we can, our application can connect. On most (to all) machines
>> where we install xp-sp2 ourselves there is no problem.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>
>

> My clients are reporting they cannot connect to the msde database using my
> application - generic failed to connect message.
> My software application installs the MSDE. Their computer is a brand new
> machine with XP-sp2 installed. The sp2 is not an upgrade. We have only
> seen this phenomena with a machine where we cannot uninstall sp2. On
> machines we can, our application can connect. On most (to all) machines
> where we install xp-sp2 ourselves there is no problem.
>
> Any ideas?
>