Hello all,
I'm a bit at a loss here. We're having a SQL Server on which one small db is replicated to a large number of other servers. Server Agent is running under LocalSystem (I know ...) and the snapshot agent is configured to use that account as well.
Subscription type is push, transactional replication.
Two days ago, adding of a new subscription failed (i.e. stalled) and the snapshot agent stopped working. Running it from cmd brought up error 14080 (Server doe not exist or you don't have permission ... System Language is German). Running from commandline with -DistributorSecuyrityMode 0 and the sa credentials worked. Changing the task to 0 and adding the credentials made the snapshot agent work again.
In the evening, the server was restarted and voila, the original configuration with SecurityMode 1 started to work again. Newly added subscriptions didn't synchronise, though. While trying to figure out why, the Snapshot agent stopped again.
Now, from cmd, weg get 14080 again with Securitymode 1, but "Login failed for user 'DOMAIN\user'" (error 4060) with SM 0?! Bummer ...
In the meantime, we were notified that a backup job (also using local system) also stopped, so I'm not really sure if it's an replication related problem at all.
I'd really appreciate if someone could point me in the right direction - I suspect I'm really missing something blatantly obvious, but I'm stuck now.
TIA,
Chris