"Hilary Cotter" wrote:

> Is there a firewall between these two boxes? This could explain your
> problem.
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> "Jonas Larsen" <JonasLarsen@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:583DB32B-A513-44DE-8DEF-50ACF5EF9C52@microsoft.com...
> > Guys
> >
> > I have an updateable transactional Replication. It works fine from
> > Publisher
> > to Subscriber but when I try to update a table on the Subscriber I get the
> > following error:
> >
> > Server: Msg 8501, Level 16, State 1, Line 5
> > MSDTC on server 'SERVERNAME\INSTANCE' is unavailable.
> > Server: Msg 7391, Level 16, State 1, Line 5
> > The operation could not be performed because the OLE DB provider
> > 'SQLOLEDB'
> > was unable to begin a distributed transaction.
> > OLE DB error trace [OLE/DB Provider 'SQLOLEDB'
> > ITransactionJoin::JoinTransaction returned 0x8004d01c].
> >
> >
> > My Publisher is a Win2000 with SQL2000+SP4 and my subscriber is a Win2003
> > with SQL2000+SP4. The Publisher database is on an instance ( Used to be an
> > old cluster node however SQL was reinstalled but due to all the Production
> > systems the instance remained).
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Regards
> > Jonas
>
>