makepipe and readpipe on cluster

I am trying to see if named pipes connection works on my cluster, sql server
2K.

I have tryied the 2 utilities, makepipe and readpipe.

The connection works if, when using readpipe, I use the physical server name.
But our configuration is on MSCS 2 nodes Cluster.
If I use the virtual name the connection fails.
Is that normal?

Please advise.

Franco

Did you have any problem connecting to a SQL instance in the cluster via
named pipes? If so, why not just use osql to test your named pipe
connectivity.

Linchi

"Franco" wrote:

> I am trying to see if named pipes connection works on my cluster, sql server
> 2K.
>
> I have tryied the 2 utilities, makepipe and readpipe.
>
> The connection works if, when using readpipe, I use the physical server name.
> But our configuration is on MSCS 2 nodes Cluster.
> If I use the virtual name the connection fails.
> Is that normal?
>
> Please advise.
>
> Franco