It is not directly PHP but it is Db with PHP/Linux Linux 2.4.19-4GB Apache: httpd-2.0.48 php-4.3.4 freetds-0.61.2 I have php pages to connect to MsSQL-2000 server $conn = mssql_connect($server, $user, $pass) or die "...."; or (PEAR:Db) $dsn = "mssql://$user:$pass@$host/$dbname"; if (DB::isError($db)) {die ($db->getMessage()); } PHP-pages with these instructions worked this morning. Later and still now: DB error connect failed : impossible to connect now. I suspect the MsSQL server to be overloaded. Other users (Windows) are connecting via piped names Myself (on Linux) connect via IP-address If I reboot in Windows-2000 (Dual-boot system): no problem to access Db (piped name). If I make a test (on Linux) with tsql (FreeTDS): connection OK Only problem is to try connecting through Apache/PHP on Linux via IP-Address I had once problem making a DHCP enquiry on a Windows server from a Linux Host and I had to increase the TimeOut thus I wondered if I do not have the same problem now. I checked thus /www/conf/php.ini I uncommented the lines: mssql.connect_timeout = 10 mssql.timeout = 60 and tried higher numbers but without success. Apache/PHP don't seem to repeat the request till success. If anybody knows of a way to awake or shake MsSQL (apart from blowing it). Of course, the obvious is to install MySQL bur I am not the master here. -- Alain Barthélemy cassandre@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://bartydeux.be Linux User #315631 -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php