Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2000 Unleashed, Second Edition

makepipe and readpipe

makepipe and readpipe are a little-known pair of utilities that are useful when you want to verify a client's connectivity to SQL Server through named pipes. The utilities work in con-junction with one another. To use these utilities, you first run makepipe from a command line on the server. The basic syntax is as follows:

makepipe 
readpipe /Sserver_name
					

You can optionally pass it a pipe name, or it will create a default named pipe on the local SQL Server with a name of \\.\pipe\abc. Next, on the client computer, you can run readpipe /Sserver_name. You can supply some optional parameters, but at minimum, readpipe needs the server name. If the named pipes interface is working properly between the client and the server, ...