MSSQL Error 'The underlying provider failed on Open'

Question

I was using an .mdf for connecting to a database and entityClient. Now I want to change the connection string so that there will be no

Answer 1

context.Connection.Open() didn't help solving my problem so I tried enabling "Allow Remote Clients" in DTC config, no more error.

In windows 7 you can open the DTC config by running dcomcnfg, Component Services -> Computers -> My Computer -> Distributed Transaction Coordinator -> Right click to Local DTC -> Security.