I can connect with SSMS to remote, using SQL authentication. But I trying connect from my C# app using the exactly same server address and login credentials as with SSMS it times out after a while because host failed to respond.
when I modify the server connection string replacing only the server address with a server address of SQL serve deployed on my LAN things are working OK.
So that means:
a) the firewall cannot be a problem or it will not be working with the SSMS.
b) the connection string is (probably) not a problem, because as soon as I use a LAN address in it everything is
fine.
That leaves me out of the ideas what else should I try. So any fresh ideas will be greatly welcome