Repost - Linked server security - Help!

I have 2 questions.
1. Can I map a local NT group (not a user) to a remote login (SQL account)?
(local server is SQL7, remote server is SQL 2K)
2. I kept add new login mappings from the security tab. Then I clicked OK
and closed it. No error messages. Next time when I opened the tab, it only
shows the first mapping I did. The rest disappears. I used
sp_helplinkedsrvlogin, which still does NOT show the rest. Is this a bug?
Can anyone help?
Thank you!Hi
Is this a SQL 7 instance linked to SQL 2000 or vice versa? Which version of
EM are you using to do this?
Can you use Query Analyser (sp_addlinkedsrvlogin) to add this login?
John
"Min" <Min@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have 2 questions.
> 1. Can I map a local NT group (not a user) to a remote login (SQL
> account)?
> (local server is SQL7, remote server is SQL 2K)
> 2. I kept add new login mappings from the security tab. Then I clicked OK
> and closed it. No error messages. Next time when I opened the tab, it only
> shows the first mapping I did. The rest disappears. I used
> sp_helplinkedsrvlogin, which still does NOT show the rest. Is this a bug?
> Can anyone help?
> Thank you!
>|||Local server is sql 7. linked server is sql 2k. I checked the version of the
EM, which is 8.0
"John Bell" wrote:

> Hi
> Is this a SQL 7 instance linked to SQL 2000 or vice versa? Which version o
f
> EM are you using to do this?
> Can you use Query Analyser (sp_addlinkedsrvlogin) to add this login?
> John
> "Min" <Min@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:97B19B1E-B858-4433-8642-F9DE841DB341@.microsoft.com...
>
>|||Yes. I can use sp_addlinkedsrvlogin to add login, although EM still did not
show it. If I add thru EM, it will only show the first mapping. Even
sp_helplinkedsrvlogin will not show it. I have done test to prove that the
mapping was added. However neither thru EM or SP, I can see it.

> Can you use Query Analyser (sp_addlinkedsrvlogin) to add this login?
> John
> "Min" <Min@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:97B19B1E-B858-4433-8642-F9DE841DB341@.microsoft.com...
>
>|||Hi
You may want to check on a system that has the SQL 7 tools.
John
"Min" <Min@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Yes. I can use sp_addlinkedsrvlogin to add login, although EM still did
> not
> show it. If I add thru EM, it will only show the first mapping. Even
> sp_helplinkedsrvlogin will not show it. I have done test to prove that the
> mapping was added. However neither thru EM or SP, I can see it.
>|||Thanks! I will check. Do you know the asnwer to my first question?
1. Can I map a local NT group (not a user) to a remote login (SQL account)?
(local server is SQL7, remote server is SQL 2K)
Thanks again.
"John Bell" wrote:

> Hi
> You may want to check on a system that has the SQL 7 tools.
> John
> "Min" <Min@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:7290F8F4-58AD-4FFC-A4B6-E9600767D23C@.microsoft.com...
>
>|||Hi
You should be able to do this, but I don't have a system I can check it on!
In general my preference is to use NT groups wherever possible then when a
new user comes along it is part of the NT administration to set them up
(without touching the databases!).
John
"Min" <Min@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks! I will check. Do you know the asnwer to my first question?
> 1. Can I map a local NT group (not a user) to a remote login (SQL
> account)?
> (local server is SQL7, remote server is SQL 2K)
> Thanks again.
> "John Bell" wrote:
>|||Thanks for the reply. I tried. It was mapped OK but did not work. A user
belongs to the NT group connects to the remote server as the generic account
I have (which is for everyone not in the mapping table). After couple tests,
it seems that I can only map a NT user to a remote SQL account.
"John Bell" wrote:

> Hi
> You should be able to do this, but I don't have a system I can check it on
!
> In general my preference is to use NT groups wherever possible then when a
> new user comes along it is part of the NT administration to set them up
> (without touching the databases!).
> John
> "Min" <Min@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:80ACE6F9-9F60-471C-8E2C-A1A2D3E47534@.microsoft.com...
>
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