That's an excellent question. I had noticed that the VMWare network settings were set to NAT but I hadn't changed them and had immediately ruled that out as a potential cause. I'll try switching it to bridged and see what happens.
Thanks, --Anne > Have the VMWare network settings for that VM changed from bridged to > NAT or vice versa? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Anne Porosoff [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 2:44 PM > To: cf-talk > Subject: CF Suddenly Can't Connect to VMWare Fusion Instance of SQL > Server 2005 > > So I have encountered a rather interesting and frustrating problem > with my CF/VMWare/SQL Server setup on my mac this week. Everything > had been working beautifully until sometime around December 14/15. > Below is the error I receive: > > [Macromedia][SQLServer JDBC Driver]Error establishing socket to host > and port: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:1433. Reason: Network is down > > I've gone through and checked my SQL Server settings and TCP/IP is > indeed enabled and it doesn't appear any of the other settings have > been changed. I did notice, however, that a Windows update was > applied around that time so I rolled back those updates. Alas, I > still can't get a connection. I can successfully connect to the db > via SQL Server Management Studio within VM and I can access my > localhost on my Mac from VM as well. Needless to say, this is truly > puzzling. Any ideas? > > Thanks in advance, > --Anne > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:316983 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4

