I'm trying to connect to a sql server and its not allowing me to. This just recently started happening from what I can tell nothing was changed. The TCP port (1433) is enabled and allowed access through the firewall, the Named Pipes is enabled. I can ping the IP address of the SQL Server I am trying to connect to. I am running out of ideas fast!
Here is the error:
Cannot connect to (MyServerName)
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the instance name is correct and that SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections. (provider: Named Pipes Provider, error: 40 - Could not open a connection to SQL Server) (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 53)
The network path was not found
This was resolved. The company that was hosting the SQL Server I was trying to reach had blocked our cloud server IP address. Thanks for your help everyone!
Map your shared folder on both Sql Servers [ primary and secondary Sql server ] and try again to configure file log shipping may this help because in my scenario is working for me
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I cannot connect to any remote SQL Server instances from my system. I used to connect them from SQL Server Management Studio. Moreover, I can still connect to the same SQL Servers remotely from another systems (my colleagues' system).
I am getting following error:
A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the instance name is correct and that SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections. (provider: Named Pipes Provider, error: 40 - Could not open a connection to SQL Server) (.Net SqlClient Data Provider)
Error Number: 53
Severity: 20
State: 0
I have checked:
Named pipes/TCP is enabled.
Remote connections are allowed.
Windows Firewall is off.
Enabled everything in SQL Server Configuration Manager.
Also, I have tried everything mentioned in this post-
How do I fix the error 'Named Pipes Provider, error 40 - Could not open a connection to' SQL Server'?
But still could not solve my problem. Please suggest any method which allows me to fix this error and connect to the remote servers again.
instead of check whether that server system is working or not, because sometimes if the server system is not working means we are unable to connect to that system
Please, apart from management studio, is there any other tool which can be used to connect to a database on a hosting server online. Because I've tried so many times with management studio with the right credentials but I'm still not able to connect. I've disable all firewalls, made the right configuration but I'm still not able to connect.
when I connect I get this error
A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing
a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible.
Verify that the instance name is correct and that SQL Server is configured to
allow remote connections. (provider: TCP Provider, error: 0 - No such host is
known.) (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 11001)
Hi All We have a server where we have sql server 2008 as well as SQL server 2005 hosted on port 1444. Using SSMS, I am able to connect to 2008 instance without any problem. But when I try to connect to 2005 instance using following connection settings.
DEVDB1\SQL_2005,1444
SQL server authentication user name and password.
I get following error
"A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while
establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or
was not accessible. Verify that the instance name is correct and that
SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections. (provider: TCP
Provider, error: 0 - A Connection attempt failed because the connected
party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established
connection failed because connection host has failed to
respond)(Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 10060)"
I am able to connect to another instance on the same server. but not this.
NOTE: My colleagues are able to connect to this sql server with the same settings. It just does not work from my machine. Me and all my colleagues are working on VPN and have same machine configuration.
Is there any setting that I need to do/check to get successfully connected?
My VPN user profile was restricting access to this perticular port. Once my VPN user profile is matched with those who were able to access, the problem resolved.
I just installed of SQL Server Management Studio Express 2012, and then I try to connect database engine with servername : ./sqlexpress, but it failed.
Its raised message like below :
TITLE: Connect to Database Engine
Cannot connect to ./sqlexpress.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the instance name is correct and that SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections. (provider: Named Pipes Provider, error: 40 - Could not open a connection to SQL Server) (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 3)
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The system cannot find the path specified.
Whats going wrong?
I've seen this in the past, most likely the wrong instance name or address. Since it is a local DB instance on your machine you will want to try connecting to (local)\SQLEXPRESS [This is the default SQL Express Instance]
If you are running a local instance of SQL Server you can just use localhost as the server name. Also you can try to remove the ./ before the server name.
If anyone else gets a failed to connect to server instance while trying to connect to a DB in C#, make sure you add localhost to the front of your database server address if you're on the same machine.
ie: myDatabase2012
should be put in as localhost\\myDatabase2012 (the second \ is needed to escape the first)
i am having management stdio 2005 in my machine and im tring to connect to sql server 2008
i'm receiving the following message as the inner exception .
{"A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the instance name is correct and that SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections. (provider: Named Pipes Provider, error: 40 - Could not open a connection to SQL Server)"}
can anyone please help
thanks,
vijay.
The protocol you're using (Named Pipes) is only valid if you're connecting to the local machine. If you're connecting to a remote machine, you need to enable the TCP protocol.
Other things to check:
Is your connection string correct? Server name spelled correctly?
Is any firewall allowing TCP traffic? The default port is 1433 for a basic setup.
Open up the SQL Server Configuration Manager
Expand the node "SQL Server Network Configuration"
Click on protocols node
Right click on "Named Pipes" -> Enable
Restart the SQL Server service
Make sure the database is configured to allow remote connections.
If using an instance, ensure you're pointing at that instance in your connectionstring.