"Matthew Bando" <MatthewBando@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I'm looking for any advice/help with the following situation:
>
> We have a SQL Server 2000 server outside of our firewall which our vendor
> can access. The vendor updates data, and we wish to replicate this data
> through the firewall and into our internal SQL Server 2000 server. The
> firewall will only allow 1433 sessions to be initiated from inside the
> firewall, so the external server cannot register the internal server as a
> valid subscriber. I guess this means that I have to use an anonymous
> subscriber?
>
> Additionally, SMB and FTP are not allowed through the firewall since we do
> not control the external server, so I cannot get the internal server to
> initialize via snapshot. I can initialize via a backup/restore, but I
> can't
> seem to get an anonymous pull subscription without accepting
> initialization
> via snapshot. Any ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Matthew Bando