December 10, 2001 at 1:17 pm
Error 18483: Could not connect to server ‘Brutus’ because ‘distributor_admin’ is not defined as a remote login at the server.
I am running Sql2000, sp2 on Win 2000 adv server sp2. I can't get replication to even setup correctly. Has anyone seen this error and could help me out. I can run the setup wizard on our other similar environments and it works just fine.
TIA
Tom Goltl
December 10, 2001 at 2:56 pm
Haven't seen it, but it looks like replication is looking for that account. Can you create it on the remote system? It's setup on my system as a system admin.
Steve Jones
December 10, 2001 at 3:05 pm
I tried to create it once and see that it is set up as an sa account, with that name. It didn't work, I'm assuming because I don't know what password, if any to use. I could copy that users login from another server along with the password. But, I've never gotten the password to work when trying that in past attempts.
Tom
December 10, 2001 at 3:21 pm
Sorry I don't have a spare server to "install" replication on. You might try installing another SQL copy, starting a complete trace, and then installing replication. You might snag a pwd then.
Steve Jones
December 10, 2001 at 3:23 pm
Been a while since I looked at that part of it - as I recall you need to have the login defined on the target and pass the userid/pwd as part of the distrib agent parameters. Bogged down prepping for a test, if you don't get to the bottom of it in the next day or two I'll dig some more.
Andy
December 11, 2001 at 12:38 pm
Figured it out. At several points in the past the server had been renamed and the @@servername was returning a previous name. I renamed the sp_dropserver, sp_addserver stored procedures and now all seem to work fine.
Thanks
Tom
December 11, 2001 at 1:38 pm
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