sql server replication: \\BoxName\c$\ReplData is not a valid path or filename. -- sql server replication

RE: \\BoxName\c$\ReplData is not a valid path or filename.

Raymond Mak [MSFT]
7/6/2005 7:16:01 PM

You have probably tried this already, but can you do a 'dir
\\BoxName\c$\Repldata' from your laptop (under the SQLServerAgent service
account) without errors?

-Raymond

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Re: \\BoxName\c$\ReplData is not a valid path or filename.

Hilary Cotter
7/6/2005 10:19:02 PM

Does the ReplData folder exist? Its not the - in the machine name - my
machine name has a - in it and it works fine.

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Re: \\BoxName\c$\ReplData is not a valid path or filename.

ChrisR
7/7/2005 10:34:29 AM

This doesnt work:

declare @dir varchar(256)
set @dir = 'dir \\MyLaptop\Program Files\Microsoft SQL
Server\MSSQL\ReplData'
exec xp_cmdshell @dir

output

The network path was not found.
NULL

(2 row(s) affected)

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Re: \\BoxName\c$\ReplData is not a valid path or filename.

ChrisR
7/7/2005 10:35:31 AM

Yes it exists.

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Re: \\BoxName\c$\ReplData is not a valid path or filename.

Raymond Mak [MSFT]
7/7/2005 1:01:01 PM

This looks pretty much like a network problem to me which I am sadly not
fully qualified to figure out. Can you do a 'net view \\MyLaptop' from any
account (inside or outside SQLServer) at all? If MyLaptop is the local
machine (wrt the replication agent) then I vaquely suspect that this may be a
machine authentication issue (laptop disconnected from domain controller for
long?)

-Raymond

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