Connection Problem From Access Front End Application To SQL Desktop Engine Backend

Hi there,

I sincerely hope that someone out there can help. I have two
instances of the SQL 2000 Desktop Engine running. One is on my local
machine for development and the other is on another machine on our
network which is the production environment. I have built an Access
2003 front end application which connects to this database. This
works fine locally, as you would expect. I successfully installed the
database on the production machine and am able to connect to it via
Access 2003 (using the Data Link Properties window) and from third
party database manager software (similar to Enterprise Manager). I am
not able to to connect to the database via my application.

I am using the "sa" account with a strong password. This is my
connection string:

strConnection = "Provider=sqloledb;DataSource=server02;User
Id=sa;Password=strong;Initial Catalog=Test"

The error I'm getting is:

"Connection cannot be used to perform this operation. It is either
closed or invalid in this context."

The connection string is the only thing that changes in my code when I
switch from my local to my production database. Is there some reason
that I can't use the "sa" account in this fashion that I'm not aware
of? I'd rather not use integrated security for simplicity's sake as
this is a small, internal application. Also, I would have thought
that if that was the issue, I couldn't use "sa" at all, even locally.

I'm going to post to the Access group as well but thought someone here
might have some advice to offer as well.

Thanks,

Barb