Introduction When you create a linked server, the connection succeeds, but the query fails. By default, non-admin users do not have access to a Linked Server in SQL Server. When such users attempt to query a Linked Server, they may encounter errors similar to the following:
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OLE DB provider "SQLNCLI11" for linked server "ZappySysLink" returned message "Unable to open a logical session". Msg -1, Level 16, State 1, Line 0 SMux Provider: Physical connection is not usable [xFFFFFFFF]. |
This issue occurs because the Linked Server does […]









