If you want a client computer initiate a server process then they require some interface. OSQL, SQLCMD, and BIDS are all interfaces. You can limit the sql installation features...

ssj_goemon,

You might need to add an alias through sql server configuration manager.

Could be a networking problem. Open a command prompt and run this:

telnet server.ip.address sqlport ...

Phil,

Thanks for your reply, nod, and suggestion. The problem I was experiencing sounded eriely like the original poster and therefore I thought a good match. Hopefully their solution...

I have a production ssis package that has been running for over a year. It used to complete in under 1 minute. The package has had some intermittent...

Lots of good banter. You might also want to see the results of the command. I like the architecture of Job.cmd calling Job.BAT that routes the output to...

BOL says, "At the destination, the transferred logins are disabled and assigned random passwords. A member of the sysadmin role on the destination server must change the passwords and enable...