Accessing named instances

I am looking to see if anyone has had this problem or ideas of what I might
try. We have been running a Windows 2000 cluster connected to a powervault
for two years as a single instance with no problems.
I am in the process of setting of a Windows 2003 Active-Passive two node
cluster connected to a SAN. I have fourinstances/virtual servers installed
and I can access the "default instance" from any machine with enterprise
manager within our network. This behavior is as expected.
I can only access the named instances from machines within the cluster's
subnet, which is not expected. I have all the instances using port 1433; not
sure if that makes a difference.
Need some help pointing our network team in the right direction. They have
had me turn off the second node, and disable NIC teaming to get down to a
single server, single NIC environment, and I still don't have success.
Any ideas on whether this is a SQL setup problem or a network/firewall
configuration issue?
Respectfully,
Brett
Hi Brett,
Some things to try:
Can the IP addresses of the named instances be resolved (DNS, hosts)?
Maybe you can try connecting to the instance using the IP address.
Or to test, add it in
C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts
Chau chau,
Pascalos
"Brett F" wrote:

> I am looking to see if anyone has had this problem or ideas of what I might
> try. We have been running a Windows 2000 cluster connected to a powervault
> for two years as a single instance with no problems.
> I am in the process of setting of a Windows 2003 Active-Passive two node
> cluster connected to a SAN. I have fourinstances/virtual servers installed
> and I can access the "default instance" from any machine with enterprise
> manager within our network. This behavior is as expected.
> I can only access the named instances from machines within the cluster's
> subnet, which is not expected. I have all the instances using port 1433; not
> sure if that makes a difference.
> Need some help pointing our network team in the right direction. They have
> had me turn off the second node, and disable NIC teaming to get down to a
> single server, single NIC environment, and I still don't have success.
> Any ideas on whether this is a SQL setup problem or a network/firewall
> configuration issue?
> Respectfully,
> Brett