Re: Can't Access Named Instanced With Network Protocol Disabled

Hi

(local) and localhost rely on the network stack to resolve. If you network
is disabled, there is nothing there to resolve the name. localhost resolves
to 127.0.0.1 by TCP/IP.

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"Marauderz" <marauderz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:u1dlfrAqFHA.3720@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi there,
>
> I have a little question here.
>
> I've installed a named instance of MSDE SP4 called mydb, with network
> protocols disabled.
>
> Then I noticed that I can't connect to it using OSQL
>
> I tried
> 'osl -S (local)\mydb -E'
> 'osl -S localhost\mydb -E'
> and both of them can't connect to the database, however.
> 'osql -S mypcname\mydb -E'
> works perfectly... I don't want to manually fill in the machine name for
> each connection string can someone tell me why (local) doesn't seem to
> connect to the local machine? Does it have anything to do with network
> protocols disabled?
>
> Thanks.
>


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