urabe (12/21/2009)
HiI've installed SQL 2005 on Windows server 2003. I can ping the server, enabled TCP/IP and named pipes and remote connections.
However, I still receive Named pipes error -40, SQL server error 53, error.
Any ideas or suggestions welcome
Your problem is not related to what you are saying error 40 then error 53 means the server cannot be contacted. I have posted the SQL Server protocol blog link which includes most reasons for the error including firewalls in the thread below.
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic754255-291-1.aspx
Kind regards,
Gift Peddie