Thank you guys for the response. I apologize about the last response. While taking what you have mentioned into consideration, I was able to finally figure the step out that I was missing. I Linked the server B to server A through the management tool. I then created a step in the SQL server agent job on server A that would execute the store procedure in the msdb, invoking my job that was created on server B. This allowed server A to initiate the restore DB job on server B. It works like a charm!!!! thanks for the info