Don't let the 2005 stuff fool ya, this is just a message   The problem is very basic, the machine cannot access the SQL Server.  Can you ping the server?  This looks to be a network issue.  Trying pinging your machine, check for any firewall running on the machine, and make sure you can access port 1433 on the SQL Server machine.

I'm deploying my application internally on 5 workstations for testing.  Four workstations work fine, however the fifth workstation is giving me an error in the initApplication section (I believe it occurrs retrieving the security preferences).

The error refers to SQLServer 2005, but I'm running this on SQL 2000.  The only difference between workstations is that the fifth workstation has visual studio installed, but I can't see why that matters. I've checked all setup and db connections and can't quite figure out what's happening.

I have attached a screen shot of the error. Any idea's what is causing this problem?

Thanks

Tim