Would that also explain my original problem then of trying to use the "Explore Latest Snapshot Folder" itemfrom the pop-up menu?

sp_browsesnapshotfolder complained about there being no transactional or snaphot publications. The thing I forgot to mention in my original post is my Publication is a Merge publication.

Does this mean I...

I'll check as you suggested and see what that reveals, but I also created a new Publication and didn't change the directories, I just left the default Admin directory and...

Also, wrt your second error, Is your remote server defined as a Subscriber?

Yes, the login is defined.

And in fact, I managed to get it working yesterday and today I'm madly documenting what I did! I think some irregularities in the way I...

Yup, 'fraid so!

(Presumably you're talking about the Properties dialog for the Publication,

Subscription Options tab, "Allow Pull subscriptions")?

If there's something else I need to do then feel free to point me...

I'm getting there!

My test environment wasn't as well set up as it should have been with spurious and then missing LAN connections interfering with my dial-up configuration. Now that's all...

(I replied to this before, but it looks like it got lost)

I've managed to get the server registration happening via dial-up, but only via IP address, not by name. I...

OK, cool, so it ought to work then.

Now for the silly question ...

How do I actually get to see the server over dial-up so I can setup the subscription? When...

Good, that's what I figured it would be and that's how I've been marking myself so far.

Thanks for the feedback.

Someone else (in another forum) has told me that as long as I have the trusts between the domains I should be OK. I'm not certain how this works yet...

I'm stumped by this one.

I've downloaded it again and also got the Desktop exe as well (another 68 M :-(), but still no x86 directory.

I'm convinced the downloads have worked...

Legend, great tip, thanks very much for the pointer.

Yeah, OK, but I've only got a 28.8K intermittent dial-up line. It took me 2 days to get this 🙁

Thought so, thanks for the confirmation.

I've actually already tried cleaning out the system tables, but despite visiting everywhere that I thought I should, it still wouldn't go away. Fortunately, this...