• Thanks, Animal Magic

    I did not created named instance, now in Services I have (MSSQLSERVER).

    And I open FW for TCP/1433

    And just tried to connect to <tcp:T410> and got connected to default engine.

    So probably I'm OK !!

    So "MSSQLSERVER" I see in services is default?

    Can I convert default to named instance? I plan to play witn linked servers, not sure will it work for default.

    I'm just itching to try it all.

    Tx again to all

    V