Posted by Nasir on 07/18/06 16:31

No, I have not tried that. Can you give me the sequnce of the steps. Do I
need to do anything on 2k-srv server side or everything needed to be done is
on 2005 server side (just add link server on the 2k5-srv server side)?


"Helmut Woess" <user22@inode.at> wrote in message
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> Am Tue, 18 Jul 2006 10:34:21 -0500 schrieb Nasir:
>
>> I've a database in 2000 which needs to be accessed from 2005 via linked
>> server. I've tried the GUI options and it is failing. One thins is that
>> our
>> both servers have hyphen('-' not underscore, could that be a problem) in
>> the
>> names, like 2k-srv and 2k5-srv as hosts, but the instances are default.
>>
>> Can anyone give me the steps please.
>>
>> TIA
>> Nasir
>
> have you tried [2k-srv] instead 2k-srv ??
>
> bye, Helmut

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