>I keep trying to regester a server in the enterprise manager sql 7.0 and It keeps timing out. I can connect to the query analyzer using the same server but the connection is slow. how do I change the timeout length of time in the enterprise manager?
>
Make sure that workstation set up to use TCP/IP protocol not Named Pipes which is quite slow. To do that, run SQL Server Network Utility on WS and check that TCP/IP is enabled and is the first protocol in the list.