Hi

Thanks for your response.

Perhaps you can help fill me in as to what I am missing!

The Server is logged on using an domain account, which is the administrator on the network.

The domain user is also a local administrator on the machine.

The SQL services are set up to run under the Local System account (in fact I have two instances on this machine, one is run under the local system (both SQL Server and SQL Server Agent) and the other is run under the aforementioned Domain account)

I am connecting to these server instances (through object explorer) from my local box using the sa account.

I cannot connect to the object explorer using the domain account as it is a windows login, and not my local windows login... I have always connected using sa in the past.

Have just moved up to SQL 2005 for this server, and did not have this problem with 2000 - has 2005 closed the door on something I am unaware of, or am I just missing something obvious.

?...Why can I not control the status of the SQL agent from my local machine...?

Thanks for any help on this

David