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Maybe your antivirus had a firewall with sql program/port exception, you may have to create a new program/port exception on your new firewall.
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Maybe your antivirus had a firewall with sql program/port exception, you may have to create a new program/port exception on your new firewall.

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hi jmnf:<br />
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how to create program/port exception on your new firewall.
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hi jmnf:

how to create program/port exception on your new firewall.

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And what could be the problem of not connecting to the remote computer from my laptop.It was working fine other day
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And what could be the problem of not connecting to the remote computer from my laptop.It was working fine other day

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i was able to connect to the sql server and to the remote computer from my laptop at home.Yesterday i uninstalled my anitivirus software and after that i am not able to connect to the sql server as well as to the remote computer.<br />
whenever i try to connect to the sql server i get the error message of sql server <br />
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( provider: Named Pipes Provider, error: 40 – could not open a connection to SQL server. <br />
&nbsp;In the same way i cannot connect to my remote machine.My VPN is working properly<br />

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i was able to connect to the sql server and to the remote computer from my laptop at home.Yesterday i uninstalled my anitivirus software and after that i am not able to connect to the sql server as well as to the remote computer.
whenever i try to connect to the sql server i get the error message of sql server 

( provider: Named Pipes Provider, error: 40 – could not open a connection to SQL server. 
 In the same way i cannot connect to my remote machine.My VPN is working properly


cannot connect to the sql server and remote computer

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) is the set of networking protocols that define end-to-end connectivity specifying how data should be packeted, addressed, transmitted, routed and received at the destination. This functionality is organized into four abstraction layers which are used to sort all related protocols according to the scope of networking involved.