"AC" <AC@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> HELP. I have installed SQL 2005 express onto a WIN XP Pro SP2 machine and
> have it working with a piece of software called IRIS.
> I have another machine connected to the IRIS software via a network drive,
> which I have installed over the mapped drive.
> My issue is that when I try to run IRIS software I get the following
> message.
>
> Module: CORE Emulator failed to start
> Cause: Failed to login into database
> Unspecified error
> HRESULT hr=0x80004004
> [DBNETLIB][Connectionopen (Connect()). ] Speccifies SQL Server was not
> found.
>
> I have the IRIS software installed on the same machine as the SQL server
> and
> this works fine.
> I have enabled TCP/IP through CLICONFG on all machines, and also through
> SSCM on the main machine.
>
> Any help would be very grateful
>
> Tnx
>
> AC

"Roger Wolter[MSFT]" wrote:

> If you are running off a network drive then the IRIS software is actually
> running on your system and just loading the executables off the server.
> When the software tries to connect to the database it is probably trying to
> connect to a local SQL Server instance and you don't have SQL Server running
> on your machine. There are several ways to fix this but they all require
> changing the connection string that IRIS is using to connect to SQL Server
> so you will have to ask them for help (or read their documentation if they
> provided any).
>
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> "AC" <AC@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:02334165-22E9-4E3D-9E8E-86F9F0EA51A2@microsoft.com...
> > HELP. I have installed SQL 2005 express onto a WIN XP Pro SP2 machine and
> > have it working with a piece of software called IRIS.
> > I have another machine connected to the IRIS software via a network drive,
> > which I have installed over the mapped drive.
> > My issue is that when I try to run IRIS software I get the following
> > message.
> >
> > Module: CORE Emulator failed to start
> > Cause: Failed to login into database
> > Unspecified error
> > HRESULT hr=0x80004004
> > [DBNETLIB][Connectionopen (Connect()). ] Speccifies SQL Server was not
> > found.
> >
> > I have the IRIS software installed on the same machine as the SQL server
> > and
> > this works fine.
> > I have enabled TCP/IP through CLICONFG on all machines, and also through
> > SSCM on the main machine.
> >
> > Any help would be very grateful
> >
> > Tnx
> >
> > AC
>
>