Hi,

I have some nasty error when deploying my application (VB.NET 20002) on the
users-computers. I'm using an SQL 2000 database.

The problem I guess is the fact that I had a local SQL 2000 and a local SQL
2005. I used to develop on a network SQL 2000 (the same which the users are
connecting too), and everything works fine. But now I am not in the office
for 2 weeks, so I have to develop on my local SQL 2000 instance. I send them
the exectuable, and this is what they 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: Named Pipes Provider, error: 40 - Could not open a connection to
SQL Server)"

I only gave them a new exectuable, the App.Config didn't change.

anybody gets any idea? I'm getting kind of desperated. I desinstalled SQL
2000 AND SQL 2005, and re-installed only SQL 2000. But I still get the
error.

Anybody any idea, any hints?

Thanks a lot in advance!

Pieter