Hi Joeb,
For this issue, I would like recommend you to post this thread to Omnis Classic forum. Since not all of the communities in this forum are the experts on Omnis classice, so I think you will get more support on related forum.
On SQL Server side, there are some configuration to allow SQL Server to be remote connected you need to be noticed, please see the following references:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/walzenbach/archive/2010/04/14/how-to-enable-remote-connections-in-sql-server-2008.aspx
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/914277
Best Regards,
Iric
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