don't you  need to define the port number opened for sql server?

also how remote is remote? different domain? different location?

you can always change this password afterwards, if that is your concern

specify it in the path, do not browse coz you will not see it there...

i assume this is development, in audit it is not only the windows account that tells you who did what, you can also retrieve information like ip addresses,domain, time, what...

odd...

check the publication properties if the snapshot gets invalidated whenever a change is made on it

in EM, did you tick the articles? it will actually reinitialize but only those that needs to be, if you haven't modified anything in the other articles only a snapshot...

the windows account that runs the sql services

you can call me jen, hth is hope this helps... ha haha

this is usually the first step, you rename the server (box itself), like servername.domain.com

coz in forums like this they...

not sure where you are now but here are the steps i usually perform:

1. rename the server box name

2. reboot

3. sp_dropserver

4. restart the services

5. sp_addlinkedserver

6. restart the services

7. issue select...

also check if explicit denies where applied to those users or groups...

HTH

actually... if you are doing some audit...

you can check if sysprocesses provides you with enough information you need...

HTH

do you have the latest sp installed?

did you try to do a subscription and publisher clean up?

actually, just add the articles, reintialize the subscriptions, then only those articles modified/added will be included in the snapshot to be generated

pretty straightforward, either use QA or EM, same result...

HTH

i'm not an expert but i read in the microsoft site that it's a separate download (I think)...

HTH

yep coz you raised an error...

use xp_sendmail or some sendmail application that you can call whenever an insert is done

a trigger will do nicely i think... or you can do...