@Ant-Green, I really appreciate your providing that screen snapshot! I had thought what I needed to do was enable TCP/IP in the SQL Native Client 11.0 Configuration (for both 64...

• This reply was modified 5 years ago by Doctor Who 2.

Hi @Ant-Green,

Follow-up

I found this link on Tom's Hardware, which showed me a separate way of opening port 1433. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/how-to-open-firewall-ports-in-windows-10,36451.html

So, I've created a new rule in Windows Defender, to all...

Yes, TCP/IP is an enabled protocol on the SQL Server machine.

It's probably in the Windows 10 firewall & network protection that I'm being tripped up. I've opened the Private network....

• This reply was modified 5 years ago by Doctor Who 2. Reason: Corrected spelling

No, I didn't. Thank you!

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• This reply was modified 5 years, 1 months ago by Doctor Who 2. Reason: edited out the double quote

Good question, Sean. I don't know the answer to that. I'll have to ask about this when we have our next meeting.

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