Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 10/02/12 11:51

Chris (chris.wisherd@kenblanchard.com) writes:
> I can connect to the server, but it is slow. But I can't access
> information such as the databases. It comes up with no items. I also
> can't backup any of the data to a local machine. There wasn't any
> issue until we loaded the 2003 Developer Edition on our XP machines.
> I've loaded both service packs 3 and 4 hoping that would solve the
> problem. I've checked TCP/IP setting, and the firewall.
>
> The server I'm trying to access is a remote server running Windows
> 2000, with service pack 4, and it is in a different domain.

I realise that I should have asked what you are connecting with and
with which credentials.

From what you say, it sounds as it you connect with Enterprise Manager
with integrated security, but your Windows login has not been added to
BUILTIN\Administrators and on top of all databases are set to autoclose.
When databases are set to autoclose, and you connect as a non-priv user,
EM has to access every database to see if you are permitted, and this
can take forever.


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Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se

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