"Khooseeraj Moloye" <rkmoloye@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> In my customer's setup we have 1 publisher and 45 subscribers, with 6
> publications. One server gets full data using a straight Push
> subscription. All other servers receive full data for some publications
> and filtered data for the other publications using HostName as the filter.
> To achieve this we are using Remote Merge Agent Activation to allow the
> HostName value to be resolved for each subscriber. We have been using
> Windows Server 2000 all the while and recently have started migrating to
> Windows Server 2003, but keeping Sql Server 2000. This has worked fine for
> the few servers that have been upgraded.
>
> Now we are having a problem with one of the new servers being upgraded to
> Win2003. The following error occurs when selecting "Run agent at
> Subscriber" and "Verify Subscriber" by right clicking the subscription
> from Enterprise Manager, [Replication
> Monitor\Publishers\Publisher_ServerName\Publication_Name]:
> "The specified remote server name might not correspond to the network name
> of the remote server or the remote server was unreachable due to network
> problem."
>
> However, there is no error when doing the same step from [Replication
> Monitor\Agents\Merge Agents\Agent_Name]. Starting the agent from either
> path gives the same error though.
>
> The publications with straight push are working fine to the subscriber.
> All configuration steps seem to have been strictly followed, configuring
> DCOM for remote agent activation and so on. Pinging the servers from each
> is successful.
>
> What steps could be done to determine the extent of the problem? Any tools
> that can be used...?
>
> Thanks to all for your valuable input.
> Raj Moloye
>
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