I thought machine names only had meaning in a network context when you were operating with domain servers. Am I wrong about that? Both my publisher and subscriber...

I'm attempting to push. It's the 'push back' on authentication that's obstructing my progress.

1. TCP/IP is enabled, named pipes is not.

2. OUTSIDE any domain service, so I only have TCP/IP as a connection option, true? Or can one use 'named...

True. However, even after testing the connection and verifying that one...

Have you tried rooting around in the msdb database? Nothing specific comes to mind, other than that I think a transaction is created for each subscription in the db....

OK. I'm making progress, but still thwarted in my ultimate objective. Because I'm 'outside' our domain server/service, I am using IP addressing to go from one server to...

What are you trying to accomplish? Why would this byte count be helpful?

Is this a push or a pull subscription? IF it's a push, would the subscriber have ANY indications that it's a subscriber (Other than checking the publisher)?

Are you proposing a rename from SSMS to MMSM?

More seriously - are there capacity issues? Are you doing everything on a single box? I am currently operating with...

Vivien - thank you for the suggestion. It looks like a marker...

Interestingly enough, 'registering' a server is not mentioned in the tutorial.

However, I...

And, here I am, misinterpreting the question. I read it as using EITHER would satisfy the condition of not using BOTH!

There's always an orthogonal way to read something obvious....

You may get better luck posting this under the SQL Server 2000 forum, since you're using 2000 SP 4. Just a thought...

Rowguid is the SQL Server generated unique identifier field to create synchronization in merge replication. It should NEVER be null. Something, somewhere else is wrong, that is causing...

SQL Server is impatient. 100 ms seems like a long time between endpoints for SS to wait. You may need to redesign your approach - load the xactions...