oh god, I think I'm losing it. I've been at this for a few days, and I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong, so here I am..
After spending a few weeks configuring Samba on my Win7 laptop, I thought I'd go ahead and see if I could get it to network with my old Windows XP desktop.
The first time I downloaded Samba on the desktop, it worked great. Then I tried changing the connection string in an attempt to have it communicate with sql on the laptop, and now I can't get rid of the error message (The provider did not return a ProviderManifestToken string). I've tried uninstalling Samba, redownloading it, reinstalling it, changing the connection string..etc. Nothing seems to be working.
What am I doing wrong?
I'm not sure if I've provided enough information, and I've searched the boards, so please let me know if it looks like I've missed something. I'm not very tech-oriented.
And of course, thank you a billion times over for providing such an AMAZING resource for restaurant owners. I'm extremely glad that I held out and did my research long enough to stumble across Samba.