Named Pipes Client Connections

The following procedure describes how to test a network connection when using named pipes as the IPC mechanism.

    To check a named pipes connection

• At the operating-system prompt on the client workstation, type:

  net view \\servername

  where

  servername

  Is the name of the server you want to connect to.

For example, to check the connection between a named pipes client and a server named \\GIZMO, type the following on the client:

net view \\GIZMO

If the connection is open, the output looks something like this:

Shared resources at \\GIZMO
SQL Server

Sharename      Type            Used as  Comment
----------------------------------------------------
PUBLIC         Disk                     Public Files

The command completed successfully.

    To verify that you can connect to a server's named pipe

• From a command prompt, type:

  netuse \\servername\IPC$

where

servername

Is the server you want to connect to.

For example:

net use \\GIZMO\IPC$
The command completed successfully

If the connection between the client workstation and the server computer is open but you still cannot connect to SQL Server, try testing the network and local named pipes using the makepipe and readpipe utilities, as described in the following sections.