Re: General Network Error - LocalHost

Bill:

It actually was working without the server= but when we added
server=localhost the problem went away.

Thanks for your assistance.


"William (Bill) Vaughn" <billvaRemoveThis@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> You still need to use the Server= or Data Source= keyword in the
> ConnectionString to refer to the local system.
>
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> "JL" <jlederman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> Bill:
>>
>> We are using a connection string of the following format:
>> "User ID=xxx;Password=yyy;Database=zzz". We are not specifying local or
>> localhost.
>>
>> "William (Bill) Vaughn" <billvaRemoveThis@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>> The network might be required to authenticate SSPI connection
>>> credentials. Are you using "localhost" or "local" to address MSDE?
>>>
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>>> "JL" <jeryl.lederman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>>> We have a Winforms app running on XP against a local installation of
>>>> MSDE. The machine is connected to a network. When we pull the network
>>>> cable out we get General Network Error from SQL Server even though we
>>>> are connected to the SQL Server on the local machine.
>>>>
>>>> We pull the network cable out to simulate a failure during an upload
>>>> process to another machine. This process does not use SQL Server and
>>>> we are not connecting to SQL Server on any other machines from this
>>>> machine. We do have other installations of SQL Server on our network
>>>> but this machine never connects to them.
>>>>
>>>> Any insight would be appreciated.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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