We are running into an error on a SQL request from SQL-IDA to the SQL-IDB server. Both servers are on Windows 2005 with MS SQL Server 2003 SP3.
OLE DB provider "SQL-IDA" for linked server "SQL-IDB" returned message "Login timeout
expired". OLE DB provider "SQL-IDA" for linked server "SQL-IDB" returned message "An error has
occurred while establishing a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL Server 2005,
this failure may be caused by the fact that under the default settings SQL Server does not
allow remote connections.". Msg 53, Level 16, State 1, Line 0 Named Pipes Provider: Could not open a connection to SQL Server [53].
It seems to suggest that SQL-IDA cannot find the network path to SQL-IDB. We've followed the steps in this article http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;914277 but it did not resolve our issue. Is it possible that the MSDTC dynamic port range
should be set to a specific range on both servers?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Albert