POS RMS Crashes Just Before Receipt

You will find this topic listed frequently if you search the newsgroup. Here is a common cause and a fix that worked for me as posted originally by Jeff:

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If 1.3R or 2.0 and using SQL 2005,

Start | Programs | SQL Server 2005 | Configuration Tools | double click on SQL Native Client Configuration on the left | double click Client Protocols | make sure that Named Pipes is enabled | right click on Named Pipes and select Order | change so the order is 2 if Shared Memory is #1, TCP/IP should be #3 | close

Start | Programs | SQL Server 2005 | Configuration Tools | SQL Surface Area Configuration | Surface Area Configuration for Services and Connections | select Remote Connections on the left | make sure that Local & Remote connections and Using both TCP/IP and Named Pipes is selected | close this screen Select Surface Area Configuration for Features | select Enable OPENROWSET and ... | close entirely

For all machines with RMS installed;

Start | Programs | Microsoft Dynamics RMS or Retail Management System | Client Network Utility | move TCP/IP and Named Pipes to the right hand box, making sure that Named Pipes is on top | select the Alias tab | Add button | put either the computer name of the database server machine or the IP address of the server machine | close (The database server machine should always have a static IP address, that's another post)

Hi! Give us more info. What kind of machine, operating system, amount of ram, etc. Any group policy in there? Any auto-updating programs in there or your server?