I have a desktop, and a Laptop. The Desktop has Windows 7 64-bit and the Laptop has Vista Ultimate 32-bit. On both machines I have SQL Server 2008 Standard installed. On the laptop, I open SQL Management Studio and try to connect to the SQL Server on the desktop. It times out.
With SQL Server Config Manager I Enabled TCP/IP and Named Pipes for the client protocols.
In SQL Management Studio, I right clicked on the Database Engine, went to properties, and allowed remote connections. I also created a sql server login named ‘testuser’ and a password. I then added that user as a login for my database and made them the database owner.
I could not figure out how to allow connection to my db throw the windows firewall, so I turned it off.
What am I missing? I made the same changes on my laptop, and I can connect from the Desktop to the Laptop in Management Studio?
Do you have a checklist? Thanks.
UPDATE: I turned off antivirus. Ran NetStat -a and the listener is listening.
If your login attempt takes about 30 seconds to timeout, then it’s some kind of network connectivity problem (or SQL isn’t listening properly). A permissions problem would come back after a few seconds, so the long wait says it’s connection-related.
If you run ‘NETSTAT -a’ on the server, so you see SQL Server listening on port 1433? If not, then maybe the SQL TCP Listener isn’t configured properly on the server – there should be events in the Windows Event log to this effect when the SQL Service starts up.
Please edit your question with the results and we can go from there.