"localhost" does not work in connection string

[Ayush H N]

Hello,

When we connect to MSDE using the following connection string we are not
successful. COS in this case refers to an instance of MSDE on our system.

ConnectionString=Provider=SQLOLEDB;Server=localhost\COS;User
ID=sa;Password=sa;Database=COS_1_1;

But the above works, if we replace localhost by the actual machine name
our server. In addition to this, the usage of localhost works if we
install MSDE without specifying INSTANCENAME i.e if we install only a
default instance. We really need it to work for localhost\<instance-name>.

Note: We are using DISABLENETWORKPROTOCOLS=0 as an option during
installation.

We'd be grateful to anyone who can throw some light on this topic.


Thank you,
Ayush H N

 

[Brendan Reynolds]

There's code at the URL below to get the computer's name. You could use it
to dynamically create the connection string, something like this ...

strConnectionString = "Provider=SQLOLEDB;Server=" & fOSComputerName() &
"\COS;" etc.

http://www.mvps.org/access/api/api0009.htm

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[Sylvain Lafontaine]

« localhost » is for the web server, not the SQL-Server.

For SQL-Server, it's the word « local » enclosed in parenthesis: (local)

S. L.

 

[Guest]

or, if you just want to save keystrokes, referring to the local machine can
also be a single period.