Hello,
I have been following the tutorials and I've been accessing data from Southwind without any issue.

Testing the connection through the ODBC manager, I receive the following message
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.
In addition, starting the sql server manager service yields the following message
Service state was not set.
Any suggestions on what I need to do to get both of the above tests to complete successfully?

Thanks,
Cory