Timeout Expired???- The solution

Most of the Postmaster/sys administrators under go an error called “Timeout expired. Timeout period elapsed”. The main reason for this error is failure in network connection/Sql server is not working etc. But even if there is no failure in connection and sql server is properly working then also this error occurs. Some solutions for this problem is

Clear the log files of databases

Check network connections

Check the Firewall Status

One Simple solution (and the most worked one)is Check the ip address of the server (note the ip address). Then go to the machine which has come the error Timeout expired. Then open C Drive(The drive in which windows is installed, in my case it is C Drive)-----Go to Windows-----Open System 32-----------drivers---------------etc---------------open hosts (open with notepad)---- add an additional entry at the end ------Enter your servers ip address and server name(192.168.1.11 server)-----Then save hosts. Close all the open folders. Restart the Machine . This will solve the error Timeout expired.