Sorry, I didn't go back and look at the post, I had put servername and instancename in between greaterthan and lessthan signs, making it look HTML code...
try:
Servername\Instancename
(local) will try and connect on the local system against a default instance (no instance name). If you have a named instance, you need to specify it for the connection.
K. Brian Kelley
@kbriankelley