Ive been battling an issue with an older SQL 05 box in a server 2003 cluster. The snapshot/log fail because of the good ole privilege error, but ive already been through an extensive list of things. Here's a quick rundown:
SQL and the Agent are running with a domain account. The account was set in the SQL config tool. It's already been set back to the system account, then set back. Im using the same account for the publisher's account.
The account has domain admin rights.
The account was given specific full rights (even though domain admins have it) to the replication folder on the shared storage
The account has been given rights to the entire MSSQL and Microsoft SQL Server registry nests under HKLM
The user has full db_owner rights on the database im working with as well as sysadmin role
Im stuck and after going through pages and pages of forum threads, the simple things didn't help me at all. I would love to see if someone else has an idea of something to do here.