>My guess would be that for some reason the iis user does not have access to the data on the other server.
Cy,
Actually, after some digging here on the UT I found others with similar problems and someone pointed to a Microsoft page that acknowledged the problem and gave workarounds. It's an IIS problem with ASP I think.
Thanks
Gil Munk
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