BUG: Documentation Error on Hiding SQL Server on the Network

• Microsoft SQL Server, version 6.0

SYMPTOMS

SQL Server 6.0 "Books Online" and the "Administrator's Companion" state that in order to hide the SQL Server on the network, the user must "Clear the Make Browser Broadcasts to LAN Manager 2.x Clients check box" in the Server configuration in Control Panel/Network. However, clearing this box does not hide the SQL server.

CAUSE

The SQL Server documentation incorrectly states that you can hide the server by clearing the Make Browser Broadcasts to LAN Manager 2.x Clients check box. Clearing this box only stops browser broadcasts to LAN Manager servers.

WORKAROUND

To hide the SQL Server on the network, the user must run the NET CONFIG SERVER command with the switch /HIDDEN:YES. This will hide the SQL Server from named pipes clients as well as from clients using the NET VIEW command.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft SQL Server version 6.0 documentation. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.