>-----Original Message-----
>Any idea where I can get that beta. I didn't see it on
MSDN subscriber
>downloads or microsoft.com/sql?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Doug.
>
>"Raymond Mak [MSFT]" wrote:
>
>> Hi Doug, this is a known issue and the fix is included
in
>> SP4 (in beta now). I would strongly encourage you to
try
>> out the beta.
>>
>> -Raymond Mak
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >Running SQL2K as pub/dist and MSDE 2K as subscribers.
>> Using VB / SQL-DMO to
>> >run pull subscriptions: 1 merge, 1 snapshot and 1
>> transactional.
>> >When I create a snapshot and flag the snapshot as
>> compressed, it appears
>> >that the user needs write access to the snapshot
folder.
>> When the snapshot
>> >is uncompressed, it seems to work just fine. My ideal
>> world would see the
>> >CAB file copied to the users' boxes and the scripts
run
>> from there (as
>> >happens with FTP), but when accessing a file share
>> directly replication seems
>> >to want to decompress on the network share. Is this
true?
>> >I've tried setting the Working Folder to no avail.
>> >Since my users connect via dial-up VPN, I would like
to
>> see throughput
>> >maximized and running compressed seems to do that
quite
>> well. However, I no
>> >longer have access to my FTP server via VPN/dial-up so
I
>> must use file shares.
>> >.
>> >
>>
>.