Have a web service on IIS that my client code calls via the System.Runtime.Remoting subsystem. The web service trys to fetch a record from SQL Server Express 2005. Worked perfect with SQL Server 2000.

With SQL Server Express 2005, I get the following:

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've tried everything I can think of to configure SQL Server 2005 for remote connections.

Anyone ever had a similar problem and fixed it?

Bob

I apologize for cross posting, but got desperate with a n-tier app that didn't have a clear primary forum. Anyway, I have SQL Server Express configured correctly to recieve remote calls. My problem was that I only had my connection string in my remote web.config file; I needed the local and remote connection strings in my client app.config file as well. Once there, works like its 'sposed tooo.

The error I mentioned (which has gotten a lot of forum and blog attention) - "this failure may be caused by the fact that under the default settings SQL Server does not allow remote connections" - may also be caused by the fact that a connection string isn't initilized.

Bob