Start with my blog. There are a couple of whitepapers there that discuss
connecting. If that does not help, come back here.
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[quoted text, click to view] "EGON" <EGON@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:10C1AAFD-7D00-493F-AE77-6F5CBA5A1D27@microsoft.com...
> Hi!
>
> I have downloaded Club Website Starter Kit from MS. I don't have SQL
> Server
> Express but I do have SQL Server 2005 Development.
>
> I have changed the name of the DB server in the connection string, but
> nothing else in the string.
>
> Remote connections is aloud and port is set to 1433.
>
> Well, when I try to run I get:
>
> An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server. When
> connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused by the fact that
> under the default settings SQL Server does not allow remote connections.
> (provider: SQL Network Interfaces, error: 26 - Error Locating
> Server/Instance
> Specified)
>
> My question is:
> - Shouldn't it be possible to use Development instead of Express version?
> - If it should be ok, what adjustments do I have to do?
>
> Ps. Sorry if this is wrong newsgroup, but I couldn't find any better.
> Please, help me out!
>
> Regards
> /Marcus
