On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 00:39 -0600, ssamir wrote: > Dear Vitamin > > Actually when this VB application runs under wine it has to read and write data on the SQL server 2000 which is on another machine in the network. > > The error is that VB application is unable to find the SQL server which is running on Windows 2003 machine and its ip is 192.168.41.82 and its name is webserver. > > So far I am able to ping this machine by ip and by name also from command prompt. > Does nmap see SQL Server on the expected port? What about the other points I suggested you check but haven't mentioned? Martin