use the edit button dude

instead of double posting......
do this to check weather or not ur firewall is topping the connections.
run--->
Firewall.cpl--->
Advanced--->click on your
internet connection and lick
settings--->
Add--->(In
Description of Server field type your actual SQL server name)
External and
Internal port number set to
445. And obviously set the IP field to your computer name or IP.
once done click ok and ok again on any other windows requiring u to click ok.
I hope this helped at all......
i read somewhere, IF u are running SQL server 2000 on Windows XP u have to do this because SQL 2000 doesn't run properly on XP......<--------i did not say this....it was some other website