You may check the owner of the job

"when I try to connect to the desktop over the network the connection times out - must I setup a guest account or something?"

What do you mean ? Before you...

If you need to run the batch on regular base, you can run it from a scheduled task.

Moreno

It should not be a problem.

Try a select * from sysobjects and check if other tables are lost.

Grab your last backup and restore it with another name and check for your table. Try to find...

"I can not use my old account, the one that worked on my old machine"

How do you log on the new machine ? In a domain doesn't matter if...

Strange problem. Sorry if I ask, but are you sure that the tables are lost ? Is the Db in simple of full recovery mode ?

When you boot your server...

This is a bit confused.....generally doesn't matter where your computer is. It looks like you have an account in domain y and one in domain a. Are the domain trusted...

Consider also the load on your system to decided the amount of memory needed.

You may find useful informations on

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms190673.aspx

By creating a new sql login the Enforce password expiration” or “user must change password at next login” properties are checked.

If you are not crossing domains, the problem is somewhere else. Check that properties of the server allow remote connections. Check that the login you are using has enough rights....

You have to ask Microsoft directly for it. It is not public. However have not checked now if it may be included in SP2a.

Regards,

Moreno

As far I know Microsoft handles a dual core as one physical processor. The OS recognize the dual core (we have a few installed in our company).

In my opinion...

Once you have the server name it should be possible to query the sysdatabases DB and get the DB-List for each server

If a DC becomes unavailable your sql server should contact the next one. Do you have another DC in the network segment ? If no make sure that your AD/NT...