did the patch close ports needed to connect to you db server on machine 2?

>1st machine
>Windows 2000 server
>IIS 5
>Tango 2000
>all patches, sps and fixes
>
>2nd machine
>Windows 2000 server
>MSQL 7
>all patches, sps and fixes
>
>Something strange just happened to me. I applied the latest critical 
>update to 2nd machine and rebooted. Suddenly all db queries resulted 
>in "named pipes access denied". I changes the client configuration in 
>MSQL to TCP/IP connections and switched client configuration in ODBC 
>on 1st machine to the same. Now it works, but the client configuation 
>on 2nd machine shows named pipes as the default and 1st machine shows 
>TCP/IP for odbc.
>
>What gives? Any help appreciated as this is on a production machine.
>
>Which is the better connection anyway, I remember this discussion in 
>the past but would like to get it right.
>
>Thanks
>
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