Network software is required to connect the clients running the Microsoft® SQL Server™ ODBC driver to the server on which SQL Server resides. To connect to a server running SQL Server, you can use Microsoft Windows NT®, Microsoft Windows® 95/98, or a compatible network such as Novell NetWare, or Banyan VINES. For information about the hardware and software required by each network, see your network documentation.
The SQL Server ODBC driver communicates with network software through the SQL Server Net-Library interface, which requires a Net-Library dynamic-link library (DLL). The SQL Server version 7.0 ODBC driver requires the SQL Server 7.0 versions of the Net-Library .dll files. These are installed when you run the client portion of SQL Server Setup. For more information about supported network configurations and Net-Library files, see Running SQL Server Setup.