MSDE local host failure

Why would the localhost not install but rather our named instance will
install? We have an inconsistent problem with installations. Our app
depends on a named instance and a secondary app depends on local host
so we need both. However, systems that have previous installed,
uninstalled and try to reinstall the current app, only the local host
will install or the named instance will install, but not both. This
doesn't happen on all machines either. We encounter the usual errors
as seen in this group such as 'server not found', etc. and I can
usually get MSDE installed only if after I uninstall, I delete the MSDE
references in the registry. Yet I am baffled how MSDE would install
the named instance but not the local. This has primarily been occuring
on XP sp2 machines and all data resides on the client machine where
MSDE is installed.
Any suggestions?
Thanks.
hi,
Colleen wrote:
> Why would the localhost not install but rather our named instance will
> install? We have an inconsistent problem with installations. Our app
> depends on a named instance and a secondary app depends on local host
> so we need both. However, systems that have previous installed,
> uninstalled and try to reinstall the current app, only the local host
> will install or the named instance will install, but not both. This
> doesn't happen on all machines either. We encounter the usual errors
> as seen in this group such as 'server not found', etc. and I can
> usually get MSDE installed only if after I uninstall, I delete the
> MSDE references in the registry. Yet I am baffled how MSDE would
> install the named instance but not the local. This has primarily
> been occuring on XP sp2 machines and all data resides on the client
> machine where MSDE is installed.
just to test, I installed 2 additional named instances of MSDE (sp3 and sp4)
on a pc hosting 1 deafault instance of MSDE sp4...
and I am unable to reproduce the problem... of course, uninstalling an
instance requires you to manually clean the file system, or manually remove
all file system and windows registry entries...
Andrea Montanari (Microsoft MVP - SQL Server)
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