problem with visual studio.net5005 connectionstring passed to SQL Server 2000

hi!

i'am recieving this error :

An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused by the fact that under the default settings SQL Server does not allow remote connections. (provider: Named Pipes Provider, error: 40 - Could not open a connection to SQL Server).

anybody can help me please

thanks

That is a general error thrown when there is a problem locating or connecting to a server. First place to look would be your connection string to make sure that the username/password is valid and has access to the server and the database.

BobP