i finally did make a connection with odbc but not exactly sure what i did to get the connection as i changed a few things at the same time after reading other options after googling the problem. a few of those included: i installed sqlexpress 2012 on the failing computer to see if i could make a connection through studio management; this was successful so i.....t seemed clear that we could connect to the server turning off the firewall on the server itself creating a rule for incoming events for port 1433 and for sqlexpress.exe then i tried to create the odbc connection and it was successful. i turned back on the firewalls on the server and the connection still seemed to work fine. but a turn of events.....tried to run gp 2015 utilities and it gets hung up on the log in with an error that the server is not responding.....jeepers.... thanks all for the input
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