in SSMS add a linked server on SQL2005, given the mapping remote user and remote password for my loca login, both remote and local login are administrators, but when show on the linked servers,it only shows Styem Tables in SSMS, and a message "See Object Explorer Details for objects in this folder" below the system tables folder.
when try to query a table , got:
OLE DB provider "SQLNCLI" for linked server " " returned message "Unspecified error".
OLE DB provider "SQLNCLI" for linked server " " returned message "The stored procedure required to complete this operation could not be found on the server. Please contact your system administrator.".
Msg 7311, Level 16, State 2, Line 1
Cannot obtain the schema rowset "DBSCHEMA_TABLES_INFO" for OLE DB provider "SQLNCLI" for linked server " ". The provider supports the interface, but returns a failure code when it is used.