I'm not a network guy at all and not the best at SQL to be honest. I'm setting up a new environment with an app server and a database server. I can remote from one to the other, I can ping from one to the other, I am behind an external firewall so I've disabled Windows Firewall on both. I've enabled remote connections on the SQL database, but when I try to connect through Management Studio from the app server to the database via IP or server name (e.g. xxx.xxx.x.x\SQLEXPRESS or servername\SQLEXPRESS I get a server not found or not accessible error. Any thoughts on what might be blocking me still?