Can you try re-creating the maintenance plan and then schedule again ?

That is true. Each instance of SQL would be considered as a separate instance of application and can take upto 2 GB. of space. (It would only take upto 1.7...

The reason why you cannot ping the host name and ping the I.P. is becuase it is in  a different domain. Your domain does not recognize the host name and...

You need to remember that when you process your cubes, you would be pulling the data out of SQL Server and you do not want to restrict memory to SQL Server ....

Just some thoughts.

Is the share \\RKE055\DBADATa\ valid ? Can you also verify your backup path ?  Also, user permissions

I believe the following are some of the questions which come up.

who is the owner of your job ? If sa, Does the SQL Account have permissions on the remote...

Are you running all your scripts from one server ?

Are there any ntfs errors in the eventlog for a corrupt filesystem ?

Can you also try connecting to Query analyzer and execute sp_readerrorlog and see if that gives any...

Try telnet Servername/I.P. 1433.

If it is open, a blank screen would come up else would time out

With what i know is that the third party tools decode the data which is available in hexadecimal format. Some of the utilities to view the hexadecimal data you can use...

I'm not sure why it works from one workgroup and not from another workgroup but below is what we do connecting to different domains using windows authentication. Paste this code...

Was the senior developer the database owner before

I think this is a post sp3 bug. Windows account cannot execute jobs although they are sysadmins on the machine.

The work around is what Allen suggessted about changing the owner to...

Something you can also do is.

1) Create a dummy maintenance plan. By dummy i mean only select the databases and do not select any options of backup database or log.

2)...

Is the job running locally or from a remote server