FYI: Solved

The dir I was looking at is encrypted and the SQL Agent was running under a different username.

Stupid, huh?

D.

Thanks. I've been landed with being the DTS guy and so am a bit clueless (my thoughts on the architecture don't seem to matter!!)

Do you mean that an ActiveX jobbie...

Hi Ian,

I can log in using server=(local)..... (in VNC session) BUT if I change this to the server name e.g. TESTD01 I get 'log in failed for user xxx' message.

I've...

Thanks.

I've found a little more and it all points to your suggestion.

The only reason that I'm going to all this trouble is that I'd end up with 49...