Creating Table On A Different Linked Server

Using Microsoft SQL 2000

When creating a table I want to be able to specify not only the db to create it on but also which server to create it on. I have two servers that are linked together, I can view all data without issue.

Doing further research it looks like with the create table command you can tell it the new table name and the database but you can't tell it which server to use. Is there a way of doing this?

Example :

CREATE TABLE LAPTOP.database.dbo.tableName (a INT) gives the following error:

The object name 'LAPTOP.database.dbo.' contains more than the maximum number of prefixes. The maximum is 2.

I am new to linked servers so basically my question is, how do you point to a server within sql before I execute the create table command?

Tx in advance


Mark