Thanks Henrico and Jasona. It is working as expected. Next step for me to either find a script or modify the existing script which would take the diff backup every...

I am not sure how to telnet to port 80/1443, but I guess this is not important now. I just got a reply from the manager saying that he is...

I can't even ping those servers. I am getting request timed out error.

It's all good. I created a login, selected the DB and didn't assign any role, then ran SQL statements to grant him read only access. Thanks for the help.

This is where I am confused and I will try to keep it simple.
1st scenario: I create a login with no access to DB. So when I run the...

Thanks for the reply. I have all the details on which tables he should have access to and it is read only access on 4 tables in a DB. I...

I am not sure how true that is but I heard that the secondary server in log shipping doesn't have to be licensed. Is that true?