Error:

hello,

our application vendors are receving the below errors while running their data load job.I spoke to our networking team member and he said everything looks good on the networking side .Can someone please help me with the below errors.we are using

Microsoft SQL Server 2012 (SP1) - 11.0.3000.0 (X64) Enterprise Edition: Core-based Licensing (64-bit) on Windows NT 6.1 <X64> (Build 7601: Service Pack 1).

Windows OS:windows server 2008 R2 sp1

72806920 DBS-0704016/5/2014 1:17:24 PM|Data flow DIM_CONTRACT_SWAM_INIT_LOAD_DF|Loader Key_Generation_DIM_CONTRACT
72806920 DBS-0704016/5/2014 1:17:24 PMODBC data source <HPWDBOE001> error message for operation <SQLExecute>: <[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server
72806920 DBS-0704016/5/2014 1:17:24 PMDriver][DBNETLIB]ConnectionWrite (send()).
72806920 DBS-0704016/5/2014 1:17:24 PM[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][DBNETLIB]General network error. Check your network documentation.>.
67606164 DBS-0704016/5/2014 1:17:24 PM|Data flow DIM_EMPLOYER_GROUP_SWAM_INIT_LOAD_DF|Reader TCRdr_9
67606164 DBS-0704016/5/2014 1:17:24 PMODBC data source <serverName> error message for operation <SQLExecute>: <[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver]Protocol error in
67606164 DBS-0704016/5/2014 1:17:24 PMTDS stream
67606164 DBS-0704016/5/2014 1:17:24 PM[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][DBNETLIB]ConnectionRead (recv()).
67606164 DBS-0704016/5/2014 1:17:24 PM[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][DBNETLIB]General network error. Check your network documentation.>.

I googled and found the below link the below link which asked me to enable named pipes.I enabled namped pipes in the sql server Network configuration.I havent yet restarted the sql services as this is a prod box.I will do it later in the evening today.

 http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/69149a71-3c15-4c95-9f95-a30db458abeb/sql-server-2005-communcations-errors-through-odbc?forum=sqldataaccess 

Can someone help me with these errors.

Thanks

lucky