I'm confused. I was assuming it was only the standard MS Access linked-tables connection. If there is nothing wrong with the table links, could there be a...

I think the error message you are getting indicates a timeout. If you are using a linked table in Access then by default it is a DAO connection object...

I also agree; hence I chose the answer that it was mis-configured.

Two tags seem to be incorrectly closed (no closing slash as someone just said).  So either there is a...