DB Connection Problem

One of the project team was having problem connecting to sql server2000(installed with instance name) installed in Windows 2003 server machine from client dev machince having VS.Net2003.


Error Message looks like this
Test connection failed because of an error in intializing provider[DBNETLIB][connectionopen
(connect())].sql does not exist or access denied.


Solution

Finally they found the solution to be apply below patch from Microsoft Link to solve the problem.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9552d43b-04eb-4af9-9e24-6cde4d933600&displaylang=en#filelist.