Hi everyone,
I have been struggling for the past one week to setup the replication in our environment and has been stuck on Administrative Password issue when adding Distributor on Publisher Server.
Replication Configuration I'm using:
- Distributor: Remote Distributor(as we do not want any performance impact on our prod)
- SQL Server Version 2017: Is same on all servers (Distributor, Publisher, and Subscriber).
- Instance: Default instance (not named)
- No firewall in our environment.
- All servers are fully connected (Can connect to each other via SSMS).
- Remote access is enabled.
Troubleshooting I have performed:
- Reset the Distributor password from Distributor Properties. (https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/azure/en-US/dadf963d-9246-44ed-841a-10d27a6cdc4e/not-able-to-connect-to-remote-distributor-from-publisher-using-administrative-link-password?forum=sqlreplication)
- Removed publishers and added it back and reset the password.
- Deleted the whole distributor and reconfigured.
- Changed distributor_admin password from Security (GUI) and using the script method (sp_changedistributor_password [ @password = ] 'password')
- Tried the configuration on another server as distributor.
- Ensured password policy is met, even removed password policy enforcement.
- Removed distributor, changed SSMS version and configured the distributor again.
- Configured the whole setup using scripts only.
- Checked the Error log of target Server (No login or repl related errors)
- Searched for the issue exhaustively on forums.
No solution has worked so far, any input will be appreciated.
