I am starting to believe that the culprit is bcp.

Since I am using the standard  bcp format I think that it is

taking the bcp.exe and running under the main instance by...

Hi,

Thanks for your reply.

My problem is executing the linked server commands while on the named instance.

For example, my main instance is called spec8, the named instance

is spec8\sqlinst2.

On the spec8\sqlinst2 "linked...