Thanks again Jack. You've been a big help in confirming that I'm not just doing some little thing wrong.

I've come to the same conclusion today - that...

Thanks for the reply...

The LinkedServer script run on "ServerA" was:

EXEC sp_addlinkedserver 'ServerB', N'SQL Server'

EXEC sp_serveroption 'ServerB','data access','True'

EXEC sp_serveroption 'ServerB','rpc','True'

EXEC sp_serveroption 'ServerB', 'rpc out','True'

EXEC sp_addlinkedsrvlogin 'ServerB', 'True'

As for the Profiler Trace,...