We have a sql server at a data center, and some client sites scattered around the city. All are connected to the data center through VPN routers. At site A, I can ping the sql server, but I cannot make a connection to the sql server when setting up an odbc connection, want to make sure I am doing it right. I am putting in the server IP address when it is asking for it, and when I get to the next page I am using the windows credentials, then it asks what database to connect to. I can set all that up, but when I open up the excel file that we created for doing reports, and hit refresh. We get an error message, which is also attached. On our test machine that is actually in the data center, it is set up the same way but does not receiveany error messages.
