After installing active directory I failed to connect SQL server 2000

After installing active directory I failed to connect SQL server 2000 with
eather with Active directory user accont and sa.
It's showing a messege unable to connect sql server Mainserver\SQL2000DB
server msg 17, level16 state 1
server does not exist or access denied.
Please helpOn Nov 6, 5:26 am, "asif"<jossy...@.nospam.com> wrote:
> After installing active directory I failed to connect SQL server 2000 with
> eather with Active directory user accont and sa.
> It's showing a messege unable to connect sql server Mainserver\SQL2000DB
> server msg 17, level16 state 1
> server does not exist or access denied.
> Please help
first make sure sql server service is started. If the service does
not start you can not connect
second pay attention to servername when you're trying to connect. If
you created default instance then just the servername needed if named
instance created then the server name above should work.