Here's something....

Start up the September CTP and connect to the Analysis Services
Tutorial and browse the cube. No problems so far. This is all happening
on my laptop whilst connected to my work network. Repeat the above but
this time not connected to network and I get the following message...

The query could not be processed:
o Errors in the OLE DB provider. Could not connect to the redirector.
Ensure that the SQLBrowser service is running on the 'computername'
server.
o Errors in the OLE DB provider. An error occurred while named instance
information was being retrieved from the SQLBrowser service on the
'computername' server.

no services have been stopped, all that has happened is connection to
my work network has been broken.

Any ideas?

Steve

you should try the address 127.0.0.1 instead of the computer name.. it
makes sense to me that you might be trying to resolve your own computer
name but you cant

this would be especially a problem where group policy locked down
permissions so that you couldn't cache logins

I was working along that theory as well, this is what that gives
you....

TITLE: Connect to Server
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Cannot connect to 127.0.0.1\septctp.
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Authentication failed. (Microsoft.AnalysisServices.AdomdClient)
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The Local Security Authority cannot be contacted
(Microsoft.AnalysisServices.AdomdClient)
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it looks like it comes down to resolving the users login, domain user
with cached login information is good enough to write mdx against the
cube but not to browse it. Of course this means all client tools are
effected the same way.

So my choices are stay connected to the network or login to the machine
as local admin....