Recently, I was working on a Peer-to-peer replication automation project. When I switched from my local test servers to some lab servers to test my scripts, I ran into some issues. The thing that confused me at first was that it was complaining about a missing remote login for the replication linked server that gets created when you run sp_adddistributor. The reason the error was confusing at first is because I was creating local distributors (the best practice for peer-to-peer