What do you mean by check service accounts? What am I meant to be checking?

Thanks

Shawn

Thanks Toby, help is much appriciated. When I try that command it gives me the following message

OLE DB provider "SQLNCLI" for linked server "repl_distributor" returned message "Login timeout expired".

OLE...

Thanks for the info, I currently have linked servers for repl_distributor on both servers using the same account. I went into the server with the distribution DB and added...

There is one on the server that will be the subscriber, but not on the publisher. Is that required?

Thx

Shawn

The Server that is the publisher is a different server from that one that will be the subscriber. Not sure if this is what you meant by distributor?

Shawn