Help - linked server woes

[sqlcasey]

Hi,

Once again, my fellow dba here has left me a little "Monday morning surprise".

There have been changes made to our production server over the weekend, and now I am getting this error msg when trying to run our regular Monday report. But the thing is, nothing has changed on Socrates. It's the *other* server that changed.

Msg 53, Level 16, State 1, Line 0
Named Pipes Provider: Could not open a connection to SQL Server [53].
OLE DB provider "SQLNCLI" for linked server "Socrates" 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.".
OLE DB provider "SQLNCLI" for linked server "Socrates" returned message "Login timeout expired".

(1 row(s) affected)

 

[sqlcasey]

I should also add, remote connections setting is set up on Socrates.

 

[ptheriault]

Is named pipes enabled? By default 2005 have named pipes disabled.
You can check if the named pipes protocol is enabled from
SQL Server Configuration Manager.
Click on the SQL Server 2005 Network Configuration -> Protocols for MSSQLSERVER.

- Paul
- Database performance looks fine, it must be the Network!