I designed a nice user interface using an Access project (.adp) based on a SQL Server 2000 db. It works fine and dandy and now I want to move it to another machine so the data entry technician can begin using it. I cannot seem to get it to work though. It will open but it has no tables and it says it is disconnected. I have tried meesing with the connection dialog but I can't get it to work that way either. I guess I am showing my ineptitude when it comes to security settings. It's just a mess considering we have a Novell login, and a Windoze login, then there are userids and passwords for SQL as well. I tried using the integrated security but that didn't work either. I tried every combination of uid and pwd that I could come up with in the connection dialog box but when I test connection it always returns a message to the effect that the server can't be found or the login is invalid or something like that. I even tried to create a blank .adp on this user's machine and then connect to the db but it wouldn't work either. Am I missing something here, or a lot of things?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.;)

have you tryied both pipe and ip when naming your server connection. you might only have one of the two enabled and trying the wrong one.

Thanks,
Jesse

Jesse,

You are absolutely correct! That was the issue. All I needed to do was go into the DSN setup, fake a System DSN to get to the Client Configuration, and then make sure TCP/IP was selected, which it was, and then cancel out. That was it! I didn't even make a change, I just opened that screen and hit OK. Apparently Named Pipes is the default and I needed TCP/IP.
This problem ranks right up at the top of the frustration to bullcrap ratio!