Wait a minute.

You do not need the Client Network utility for an application to access SQL server as long as you are on a Windows network running reasonably recent OS's and you are using the OLEDB provider. By default, SQL server uses TCP/IP and Named Pipes as its default protocols, and these are available by default on Win 2000 and up systems, so you don't need to do anything as long as you are willing to use these protocols.

You will need a reasonably recent version of Microsoft's Data Access Components (MDAC_TYP.EXE), altho XP comes with it installed (2.7).

Here's a link to msdn that discusses the utility:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...iepcc_5trn.asp

Jeff Mason
Custom Apps, Inc.
www.custom-apps.com