Using your information, I was able to solve the problem.
The problem was the pipe name for the instance.
> Hello Francois,
>
> Sorry I posted the reply to another thread from you here.
>
> I understand that only a Win2K client cannot connect to SQL 2005 after you
> installed SQL native client. You encounter error message "login timeout
> expired". 2 WinXP machine works fine. If I'm off-base, please let me know.
>
> Since named pipes is based on netbios, you may want to temoporarily
disable
> any firewall on the client to test.
>
> Also, on SQL server side, please first run "SQL Server Surface Area
> Configuration" tool to enable remote connections, then open "SQL Server
> Configuration Manager" to make sure TCPIP protocol is enabled, and check
> the port it uses. Please check the SQL error log and make sure both named
> pipes and TCPIP is really enabled on the server.
>
> C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.x\MSSQL\LOG\errorlog
>
> On Win2k mahcine, first use configuration manager to make sure both TCPIP
> and named pipes are enabled. Then you may try the following steps:
>
> 1. Ping <server name> <port> to make sure it is open and can be accessed
> from client. For example:
>
> ping sqlserver 1433
>
> 2. Try to use TCP to by using the following command:
>
> sqlcmd tcp:<servername>,<port>
>
> For example:
>
> sqlcmd tcp:sqlserver,1433
>
> 3. Try to use Named pipe to connect to command. For example:
>
> sqlcmd -S np:\\ComputerA\pipe\sql\query
>
>
> sqlcmd -S np:\\ComputerA\pipe\MSSQL$<instancename>\sql\query --named
> instance
>
> If you have any update, please feel free to let me know. Thank you.
>
> Thanks & Regards,
>
> Peter Yang
> MCSE2000/2003, MCSA, MCDBA
> Microsoft Online Community Support
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