• First of all Joie, thank you for your reply, time and effort.

    With the logs, that part really throws me... there is nothing in the logs for the time frame when I attempt to connect. As for the domain to domain resolve, yes they can see each other.

    For some reason, given it works on the server running Win08R2/MSSQL08R2 but not the server running Win03/MSSQL05, then I can not help but think it is a IIS issue, but again the logs for that are dry too. 🙁

    Maybe I need to start investigating from the workstation...