Changing SQL2K port no. on Windows 2003

Hi,
I installed SQL2K SP3a on Windows 2003 server. During the install I changed
the SQL port number 1433 to 14330. Everything finished successfully.
But when the clients are trying to build the ODBC to connect to SQL server,
they cann't connect if they leave the Dynamically determine port check box
checked under the client configuration, but once we unchecked it and put the
port no. 14330 it will connect.
Shouldn't the Dynamically determine port no. option let the client get the
port no from the server? Or is there any security lockdown on Win2003
preventing the server to publish the port no.?
Thanks
Ayad
They dynamically determine port only works for named instances. A default
instance will always default to 1433. You can change this but then the
client will always attempt to use port 1433o for every SQL Server it tries
to connect to.
If you choose to use a non-standard port for the default instance, you will
have to have each client change to connect using that port.
Rand
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