check for UDP port 1434 not being blocked by a firewall.

I just had the same issue today, in my case it was due to the fact that I restored to my Publisher 2005 a sql 7 database that had been...

We had a similar situation, found no choice but adding a SQL 2000 publisher, set up replication from 2005 to 2000, then to SQL 7.

But it did work with the database on SQL 2000 compatility, and partitioned  tables is a new feature on SQL 2005, it should not work on "80" compatibility mode either.

Thanks