Re: Change distribution server



I now have the distributor and subscriber setup on SQL2005.
The publisher is setup on SQL2000. Thank you very much.
The LogReader sql agent job on SQL2005 is failing with following login error:

2006-05-01 20:33:40.528 Login failed for user 'MYDOMAIN\WEBRPT02$'.TCP
Provider: An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote
host.Communication link failure

My challenge is finding what security context this user is coming from.
SQL2005 SQL Agent is started under Local System Account if that matters.
It's not a user account that I have entered anywhere and it does not exist on
either the SQL2000 or SQL2005 servers.

Thanks for you persistent help with this.
Steve.
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Steve P


"Hilary Cotter" wrote:

You should be able to connect to your SQL 2000 server in Management Studio
and create your publication there.

To get the SQL 2000 server to use the SQL 2005 distributor, connect to the
SQL 2005 server, right click on the replication folder and select
Distributor Properties, click on the publishers tab, click add, and browse
to find your SQL 2000 server you wish to have publish to this SQL 2005
distributor. Enter the Administrative Link Password.

Then connect to the SQL 2000 server, again, in Management Studio, right
click on the replication folder and select Configure Distributor, then click
next at the splash screen, and in the select distributor dialog, select use
another server, click add, and select your SQL 2005 server. Enter the
administrative link password you created before. Click Next,, and Finish.

Then expand the replication folder on the SQL 2000 server, select Local
Publications and create your publication as you normally would. If you feel
uncomfortable with Management Studio you can create it in Enterprise
Manager.

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"SteveP" <SteveP@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I "Disabled Publishing" on the SQL2000 machine which removed the publishing
and all associated subscriptions. I scripted the other non-related
subscriptions before doing this because the warning message seems pretty
destructive.
I now have the SQL2000 database published.
The distributor is installed on the SQL2005 server.
I am trying to create the push subscription where all the agents run on
the
distributor.
The challenge is there is no convenient "Configure Publishing,
Subscribers,
Distribution" interface in SQL2005 like there is in SQL2000 - that I have
found. The Replication Monitor does not provide this same type of status
and
configuration capability. Thanks again.



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Steve P


"Hilary Cotter" wrote:

Drop the subscriptions if possible.

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"SteveP" <SteveP@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks for the reply. I received the following message:
Server: Msg 21008, Level 16, State 1, Procedure sp_dropdistributor,
Line
170
Cannot uninstall the Distributor because there are Subscribers defined.

Another "challenge" to this scenario is that another database does have
a
subscription to another SQL2000 server, unrelated to the replication I
mention below, but still on the same SQL2000 server.
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Steve P


"Hilary Cotter" wrote:

try sp_dropdistributor @ignore_distributor=1

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intelligence.

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RelevantNoise's
positions, strategies or opinions.

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"SteveP" <SteveP@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I setup replication with SQL2000 publisher going to SQL2005
subscriber.
Distributor is on SQL2005 server. After initially setting this up
the
SQL2005 server was repurposed and now I have a new SQL2005 server
(different
servername) to use.
Now when I try to configure SQL2000 replication from "Configure
Publishing,
Subscriptions, and Distributor" it tries to connect to the old
SQL2005
server
- which no longer exists and I get the "Distributor is not
available"
error
message - rightfully so.
I need to "point" the SQL2000 distributor information from the old
SQL2005
to the new SQL2005 server.
sp_get_distributor still has the old SQL2005 server listed as the
"distribution server".
I cannot execute sp_dropdistributiondb because the old SQL2005
server
no
longer exists.

How can I redirect this toward the new SQL2005?
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Steve P









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