i cannot connect to the database engine ...

I can connect to Analysis Service and Integration Service but I can not connect to the Database Engine. I receive the following error message:

Cannot connect to homebase.

Additional Information:

An error has occurred whlie establishing a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused by the fact that under the default settings SQL Server doesn not allow remote connections. (provider: SQL Network Interfaces, error: 25 - COnnection string is not valid)(Microsoft SQL Server, Error:87)

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the problem seems to be Remote Connection is not configured in this server for Analysis Service and Integration Service.

Start -- Programs -- MS SQLSERVER 2005 -- Configuration Tool -- SQL Server 2005 Surface Area Configration -- Surface Area Configuration for Services and Connections

Now you will have all the Services running on this machine like Database ENgine,Analysis Services, Reporting services, Integration services etc

Expand each one in which you want to enable remote connection adn select Local and Remote connections

Madhu

|||Once you have enabled remote connections if it's still not working, check out this FAQ I wrote over on tek-tips http://www.tek-tips.com/faqs.cfm?fid=5481.