I assume you also checked that sql server is configured to allow remote connections?
Are you trying to connect to a named instance or is it just a default instance?
Are you just putting the server name or are you using FQDN?
Also, have you created a login on the sql server?
Even with all this it could be a firewall issue on the machine that's hosting sql server!
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