More replication confusion!!

  • I am really confused by this extract from BoL in regards to Snapshot Agent:

    Process account

    Enter a Windows account under which the Snapshot Agent runs at the Distributor. The Windows account you specify must:

    At minimum be a member of the db_owner fixed database role in the distribution database.

    Have write permissions on the snapshot share.

    Password and Confirm password

    Enter the password for the Windows account.

    The reason for my confusion is that my Distributor and Publisher are in seperate domains. As such how can I use a windows account that my Snapshot agent can run under?

  • got to ask...

    why is your publisher and distributor in different domains. and just out of curiosity is there trust between the domains

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  • unfortunately no trust between domains. In an effort to reduce pressure on the publisher we are running the snapshot on a remote distributor.

  • Amazingly I seem to have got so far in getting this to work using an FTP server, this is all locally at the moment. I used a Domain account on the distributor to run the snapshot agent under, and a SQL account to connect to the publisher.

    However all afternoon I have been getting a:

    Message: 550 /129.11.2.178/C$/Snapshot/ftp: The system cannot find the path specified.

    2009-11-11 16:57:28.028 Category:COMMAND

    Source: Failed Command

    Number:

    Message: if @@trancount > 0 rollback tran

    2009-11-11 16:57:28.028 Category:AGENT

    Source: AGENT

    Number:

    Message: The process could not connect to FTP site 'D0121' using port 21.

    When trying to get my subscriber to pick up from my FTP folder. The agent accounts have full access at that folder level, and the subscription is set to pick up from the FTP folder. The /'s seem a bit odd to me in the error as shouldn't the first be a // ? Not sure where to change that though in the subscription without selecting it as an alternate folder?

    Any ideas?

    Thanks

  • Sorted it - was me not reading the field properly, I was including the root path when I didn't need to.

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