Hi,

I am trying to connect to my SQL Server using Netbeans and get the following 
behavior:
a) No error message, except a forbidden icon with the following info at the 
bottom left:
Annotation: Exception occurred in Request Processor
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/microsoft/jdbc/base/BaseDriver
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0(Native Method)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:539)
	at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass
(SecureClassLoader.java:123)
	at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:251)
	at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:55)
	at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:194)
	at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
	at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:187)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:289)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:235)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:302)
	at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
	at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:219)
	at org.netbeans.modules.db.explorer.DatabaseConnection$2.run
(DatabaseConnection.java:443)
	at org.openide.util.Task.run(Task.java:189)
	at org.openide.util.RequestProcessor$Task.run(RequestProcessor.java:330)
[catch] at org.openide.util.RequestProcessor$Processor.run
(RequestProcessor.java:721)

b) I am using Windows XP and SQL Server 2000.
My computer name is MNM and I am trying to access to database "tmp"
Parameters:
Database URL = jdbc:microsoft:sqlserver://MNM:1433;DatabaseName=tmp
User = sa
Password = ****

I hope you will be able to help me.
Cheers,
MP