An established connection was aborted by the software in your host machine.

I am getting connection errors all over the place, in everything I'm doing related to native client and connection issues failing with my database. I have changed users, authentification from windows to sql, everything. The latest was when I tried to apply the properties of my existing OLE DB Connection editor, one that has been working fine up until today. Every time I try to reselect the database and table in the properties if this, it errors out with the below:

TITLE: Microsoft SQL Native Client

Communication link failure
TCP Provider: An established connection was aborted by the software in your host machine.

BUTTONS:

&Retry
Cancel

Here are my logs:
http://www.photopizzaz.biz/junk/logs.txt
print screens of various errors I have received on my remote SQL Server 2005 (Enterprise version):
http://www.photopizzaz.biz/junk/sqlserver_2005_errors_and_resolutions.doc

Have you checked if remote connections are enabled for your server and what network protocols are available?

Please open SQL Server Surface Area Configuration tool and click 'Surface Area Configuraiton for Services and Connections' to set those settings.

An established connection was aborted by the software in your host machine.

I am getting connection errors all over the place, in everything I'm doing related to native client and connection issues failing with my database. I have changed users, authentification from windows to sql, everything. The latest was when I tried to apply the properties of my existing OLE DB Connection editor, one that has been working fine up until today. Every time I try to reselect the database and table in the properties if this, it errors out with the below:

TITLE: Microsoft SQL Native Client

Communication link failure
TCP Provider: An established connection was aborted by the software in your host machine.

BUTTONS:

&Retry
Cancel

Here are my logs:
http://www.photopizzaz.biz/junk/logs.txt
print screens of various errors I have received on my remote SQL Server 2005 (Enterprise version):
http://www.photopizzaz.biz/junk/sqlserver_2005_errors_and_resolutions.doc

Have you checked if remote connections are enabled for your server and what network protocols are available?

Please open SQL Server Surface Area Configuration tool and click 'Surface Area Configuraiton for Services and Connections' to set those settings.

An error occurred while established a connection

Hello

I am getting this err msg when trying to logon to my website on the web - on my machine there is no prob,

An error occurred while established a connection to the server.
When connection to Sql.S 2005, this failure may be caused by the fact that
under the default settings sql.s doesn't allow remote connection.
(provider ql.S Network interface, error:26- Error Location Server/Interface Specified)

(the files path is like in the web host s)

now this msg is related to the ASPNETDB.MDF (dont use sql.s db but this file)

thanks

Please check this blog for solutions:

http://blogs.msdn.com/sql_protocols/archive/2007/05/13/sql-network-interfaces-error-26-error-locating-server-instance-specified.aspx

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Do you have tcp/ip enabled on the server? If you connect from the local machine, you probably won't see the problem but when connecting from a remote machine, you will need tcp/ip enabled. Here are the steps from msdn:

Enable the TCP/IP protocol in SQL Server 2005. To do this, follow these steps:

1. Open SQL Server Configuration Manager. 2. Expand SQL Server 2005 Network Configuration. 3. Click Protocols for SQLInstanceName. SQLInstanceName is a placeholder for the name of the instance of SQL Server 2005. 4. Enable TCP/IP.

HTH