"ARTMIC" wrote:

> One more thing, now i see in the error log that the Ports are being listened
> to, but the netstat -a does not show that sql server is listening, those
> ports are missing there.
>
> damn. i wonder what it could be, this one is really tough, i doubt anyone
> would know the answer lol, just praying someone came accross this.
>
> "ARTMIC" wrote:
>
> > I setup the SQL2000 db to listen to the default and additional port 5000
> > through the server network utility. i go and do the netstat -a in command
> > prompt and i don't see sql server listening for those ports, i open the log
> > files and it is not listening,
> >
> > what is wrong? Could it be a corrupt sql install? Do i need to re-install
> > the sql2000 server? Did anyone ever come accross something like this? I have