Be sure that is the right port and that TCP/IP port connections are properly enabled on the SQL server?
Chris Peterson Gainey IT Adobe Certified Advanced Coldfusion Developer -----Original Message----- From: Paul Ihrig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 11:08 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: sql sever 2000 XP cf8 question well i am trying to make a regular connection in cf admin to sql server 2000. i can do it with. Driver: ODBC Socket but not with Driver: Microsoft SQL Server Connection verification failed for data source: master An exception occurred when executing method verifydatasource. The cause of this exception was that: coldfusion.sql.Executive$ConnectionVerificationFailedException: java.sql.SQLException: [Macromedia][SQLServer JDBC Driver]Error establishing socket to host and port: TARDIS:1433. Reason: Connection refused: connect. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion is delivering applications solutions at at top companies around the world in government. Find out how and where now http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/showcase/index.cfm?event=finder&productID=1522&loc=en_us Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:288364 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4

