If you are running Vista and you are using Management Studio or an application that is connecting to a SQL 2005 named instance server, you will receive the error.
Login timeout expiredAn error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused by the fact that under the default settings SQL Server does not allow remote connections.SQL Network Interfaces: Error Locating Server/Instance Specified [xFFFFFFFF]. (Microsoft SQL Native Client)
This problem results in that in Vista, you must specify the port number of the instance you are connecting to. So rather than connecting to Server\Instance you need to connect using Server\Instance,port.
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