Network Software
Network software is required to connect the clients running the Microsoft® SQL Server™ ODBC driver to the server on which the instance of SQL Server resides. To connect to a server running an instance of SQL Server, you can use Microsoft Windows NT® 4.0, Microsoft Windows® 2000, Microsoft Windows 95, Microsoft Windows 98, or a compatible network such as Novell NetWare or Banyan VINES. For more information about the hardware and software required by each network, see the network documentation.
The SQL Server ODBC driver communicates with network software through the SQL Server Net-Library interface, which requires a Net-Library dynamic-link library (DLL). The SQL Server 2000 ODBC driver requires the SQL Server 2000 versions of the Net-Library .dll files. These are installed when you run the client portion of SQL Server Setup. For more information about supported network configurations and Net-Library files, see Basic Installation Options.