Hi Narayana, Could U please describe your question that for what purpose you want to install Reporting Services on client machines. If you just want to viewing, just IE5. For designing reports, you need Visual Studio.NET. Given below link also help you to understand the architecture of reporting tool. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2000/deploy/rsdepgd.mspx Regards Shekhar "No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft."
Reporting services 2000 version can be installed on SQL 2k, but you have confirm the question asked by Shekar. Satya SKJ Contributing Editor & Forums Moderator http://www.SQL-Server-Performance.Com This posting is provided “AS IS†with no rights for the sake of knowledge sharing.