From: Wesley Chen Date: 2009-04-14T15:58:06+09:00 Subject: Re: How to remote connect to the SQL server 2005 when there is a ‘\’ in the SQL server name, such as 192.168.0.11\active? --0016e64402a0a3150004677e59d6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit One nice guy in my company gets this problem resolved. Two steps need: 1. Change the default port from 1433 to the right one. 2. Remove the instance name from the initialize host name. Thanks. Wesley Chen. --0016e64402a0a3150004677e59d6--