Good for telnet'ing to the ports to see if they are available.

Questions:

- Check to make sure you are not using the local service account for either of the instances...

Michael,

I've tried everything up to this point that I can think of. So, as a quick resolution to get the rest of the project going, I'm just writing a...

Michael,

Good points; I've already ruled those out, too. I checked the HostA records in DNS - they point to the same machine name. I pulled the MAC address...

Michael,

Good point, and good question - however, DNS resolves the machine name. The server has two NICs, but the other NIC is disabled.

Let me clarify a bit...