"Paul T." <weluvpaul@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1168454660.767978.320110@p59g2000hsd.googlegroups.com...
> Hello,
> I have a publication that is pushed from a SQL 2005 Standard box to
> about 40 SQL express subscribers. One of the servers went down and was
> rebuild and I reran the same install script as I ran on the other
> servers ( I made the script). I pushed out the same subscription as
> before to it, and it is running smoothly (transactional). I then
> needed to set up a snapshot subscription to all servers, and this
> server was the only one that would not allow me to. When I try and set
> up a new subscription to it I get this message:
>
> "Replication components are not installed on this server. Run SQL
> Server SETUP again and select the option to install replication.
> (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 21028).
>
> So I thought I would just redo the setup and only pick the replication
> component, but you cant, it makes you pick the whole database engine
> tree to get it, and then the install says that it is already installed
> and won't let you continue. Same happens if I go through add/remove
> programs and use the add component link.
>
> Any thoughts or ideas on this error. Right now the only solution I
> have is reinstall from scratch.
>