Thanks for the reply. It turned out to be the host name as detailed in the
"brians[MCSD]" <briansMCSD@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hello Carl,
>
> According to 1and1's advertising they put their sql servers on separate
> database machines. Therefore, I would assume they would have to provide
> you
> with the sql server name (location) and the database owner's password.
>
> --
> enjoy - brians
>
http://www.limbertech.com >
>
> "Carl Gilbert" wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I have an ASP.NET 2.0 web app on some 1&1 (1and1) MS web space. I have a
>> SQL database to which I have a connection string in my web.config.
>> The only piece of information I can not work out is the server name as
>> I've
>> got shared hosting.
>>
>> How can I find out the name of the server to use in the connection
>> string?
>>
>> Regards, Carl Gilbert
>>
>>
>>