Help - error in starting server

[strenge]

Greetings,

This problem just started today. The server is my local machine, which I use as a development machine while working on ISP-hosted sites. My computer is win2000.

I had stopped the server yesterday, now today it will not restart (using Enterprise Manager, Services or the Service Manager). In EM I get the following message:
&quot;A connection could not be established to <dbname>.
Reason: SQL Server does not exist or access denied.
ConnectionOpen(Connect())..&quot;

Let me say that I am not really familiar with SQL Server and I'm not a dba -- I got it up and running but I don't know the ins and outs (the ISP handles the DBA chores on the real site).
Things I've checked:
- I use windows security, nothing has changed with my login etc. since I installed win2k a year ago.
- I checked client network vs server network utilities, they seemed ok (they were set to tcpip, I tried named pipes and multiprotocol with no luck).

Any suggestions? I need to figure this out asap.

Thanks,
Rick

 

[funcrecall12]

Hello,

all you have to do is to re-register your SQL server..

Jerry