Cannot find Snapshot - SQL 2005

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Running Win 2003 & SQL 2005 on both machines.

I created a publication on serverA. I subscribed to it on serverB. I
received the error....
Command attempted:
E:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL
Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\REPLDATA\unc\unc\R99S-SQLA_DBMOTO_AS400 MASTER
FILES\20061206113840\APVENDP_2.sch
(Transaction sequence number: 0x000049A200000088002A00000000, Command
ID: 16)

Error messages:
The device is not ready.

Thinking that replication was attempting to access the snapshot
locally, I changed to the location of the snapshot in the subscription
to \\serverA\E$\Program Files\Microsoft SQL
Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\REPLDATA\unc\unc\R99S-SQLA_DBMOTO_AS400 MASTER
FILES\20061206113840\APVENDP_2.sch

Note that the location of the snapshot is .....repldata\unc\unc\.... in
the error message. I browsed to serverA & there is no
.....repldata\unc\unc folder, just a ....repldata\unc folder, then the
folder R99S-SQLA_DBMOTO_AS400 MASTER FILES.

Next I changed the location of the snapshot to reflect where the
subscription was looking ....repldata\unc\unc & now the subscription is
initialized & receiving transactions from the publisher.

With all that said.....does anyone know why I had to jump through these
back flips to get replication to work when I did not deviate from the
defaults??


AHIA,
Larry...

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