Error 18456: Login failed for user 'Distributor_admin'

Hi,
When going through the replication wizard to setup transactional replication
the following error is returned when it starts to setup replication.
SQL Server Enterprise Manager could not configure '<four part servername>'
as the distributor for '<four part servername>'
Error 18456: Login failed for user 'Distributor_admin'
Can someone please help. Is it because of the four part server name?
Thanks
It could be. What happens when you create an alias using the client network
utility. After doing this de-register your server in EM, and then reregister
it with the new one part alias.
Is the distributor local?
"mm" <postto@.news.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> When going through the replication wizard to setup transactional
> replication
> the following error is returned when it starts to setup replication.
> SQL Server Enterprise Manager could not configure '<four part servername>'
> as the distributor for '<four part servername>'
> Error 18456: Login failed for user 'Distributor_admin'
>
> Can someone please help. Is it because of the four part server name?
> Thanks
>
>
|||Hi Hilary,
There is no alisa defined in the the client network utility.
This happens when trying to setup a local distributor. However there is a
database on the SQL server that subscribes to a remote distributor.
Thanks
"Hilary Cotter" <hilary.cotter@.gmail.com> wrote in message
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> It could be. What happens when you create an alias using the client
network
> utility. After doing this de-register your server in EM, and then
reregister[vbcol=seagreen]
> it with the new one part alias.
> Is the distributor local?
>
> "mm" <postto@.news.com> wrote in message
> news:eIM2gdb$EHA.2196@.TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
servername>'
>