This means your subscriber can't connect.
Log on to your subscriber machine and try to ping your publisher.
Also verify you can ping your subscriber using the host name SubSVR from
your subscriber. Also verify that your subscriber password is correct.
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> I cannot get a pull merge replication to work.
> The distributor is Win2000 running SQL 2000.
> Subscribers are XP Pro running MSDE.
>
> Agent command:
>
> -Publisher [DistSVR] -PublisherDB [MyDB] -Publication [MyDB] -Subscriber
> [SubSVR] -SubscriberDB [MyDB] -SubscriptionType 1 -SubscriberSecurityMode
0
> -SubscriberLogin [sa] -SubscriberEncryptedPassword
> [????????????????????????????????????] -Distributor [DistSVR]
>
> The errors:
>
> Category:AGENT
> Source: SubSVR
> Number: 20084
> Message: The process could not connect to Subscriber 'SubSVR'.
>
> Category:SQLSERVER
> Source: SubSVR
> Number: 17
> Message: SQL Server does not exist or access denied.
>
> Thank you ver much.
>
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