MSDE Service Manager on XP Pro SP2

I recently installed MSDE 2K on a Windows XP SP2 system. Everything appears
to be working fine, with the exception of the service manager. For some
reason, it will not find the system on the local network and will not
connect to it if I type the name in the server name area. Is this normal or
am I just missing something? Thanks in advance.
hi David,
"David Young" <cdyoung@.uta.edu> ha scritto nel messaggio
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> I recently installed MSDE 2K on a Windows XP SP2 system. Everything
> appears to be working fine, with the exception of the service
> manager. For some reason, it will not find the system on the local
> network and will not connect to it if I type the name in the server
> name area. Is this normal or am I just missing something? Thanks in
> advance.
actually, for local instances connections, WinXP sp2 should not be a
problem, but only for remote connections :D
as regard the Service Manager not showing the instance name, this is a known
issue when network protocols are disabled (default setting) as you can see
in http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;EN-US;814132
as regard directly typing in the instance name... did you provide the name
in the ComputerName\InstanceName format ( or just (local)\InstanceName) ?
Andrea Montanari (Microsoft MVP - SQL Server)
http://www.asql.biz/DbaMgr.shtmhttp://italy.mvps.org
DbaMgr2k ver 0.9.1 - DbaMgr ver 0.55.1
(my vb6+sql-dmo little try to provide MS MSDE 1.0 and MSDE 2000 a visual
interface)
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