Hi All,
I'm facing below issues with our production setup.
Scenario:
Server A: SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition SP 4 32 bit
Server B: SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition SP 1 64 bit
Server A needs to be a Publisher.
Server B needs to be a Distributor and Subscriber.
We need to have a Transactional Replication from Server A to Server B.
This setup was running till 10 days back as per mentioned above. Due to some issues Server A was formatted and re-setup.
Now when we're trying to setup the replication we're getting the error in the first step itself.
Below is the error that we get when we try to connect to the distributor (Server B) from publisher (Server A) and enter the distributor's administrative link password.
ERROR:
Connection to server [<Server B>] failed.
OLE DB provider "SQLNCLI" for linked server "36C5C21A-B7CC-42FE-B146-D08B9C95EB8B" returned message "Login timeout expired".
OLE DB provider "SQLNCLI" for linked server "36C5C21A-B7CC-42FE-B146-D08B9C95EB8B" returned message "An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused by the fact that under the default settings SQL Server does not allow remote connections.". (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 21670)We've Tried Below Things but no success
- Checked "allow remote connections" in sp_configure for both servers - OK
- Removed and added Server B as publisher in the distributor's publisher list. - Still didn't work
- The SQL Account used for connections on both Server A and Server B have SA rights on respective servers
- The LAN / Windows IDs used for both Server A and Server B are Windows Admins
- SQL Server Agent on both servers is running with the LAN / Windows ID with Admin rights on the servers and SA rights on the SQL Server
Any help in this regard will be appreciated.
Regards
Mayur Kashikar