Error 18483 'distributor_admin'

I'm trying to publish a database and when I get to the end of the wizard, I
am greeted by this message:
SQL Server Enterprise Manager could not configure 'SERVERNAME' as the
Distributor for 'SERVERNAME'.
Error 18483: Could not connect to server 'SERVERNAME' because
'distributor_admin' is not defined as a remote login at the server.
The MS articles did not help me. Can someone, please?
Wack
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try to drop the server and then recreate it
sp_dropserver @.@.servername
GO
sp_addserver @.@.servername, 'local'
GO
Hilary Cotter
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"Ray Lewis" <dav5489@.hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I'm trying to publish a database and when I get to the end of the wizard,
I
> am greeted by this message:
> SQL Server Enterprise Manager could not configure 'SERVERNAME' as the
> Distributor for 'SERVERNAME'.
> Error 18483: Could not connect to server 'SERVERNAME' because
> 'distributor_admin' is not defined as a remote login at the server.
> The MS articles did not help me. Can someone, please?
> --
> Wack
> --
> This message will self destruct.
>
|||I tried this, and used MS article 818334. I found that the SQL Server Name
was not the same as the Computer Name. However, when I try and drop the SQL
server name, I get a message stating that the SQL server does not exist.
So, I cannot rename my SQL Server 2000 server. What now?
Wack
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"Hilary Cotter" <hilary.cotter@.gmail.com> wrote in message
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> try to drop the server and then recreate it
> sp_dropserver @.@.servername
> GO
> sp_addserver @.@.servername, 'local'
> GO
>
> --
> Hilary Cotter
> Looking for a SQL Server replication book?
> http://www.nwsu.com/0974973602.html
> Looking for a FAQ on Indexing Services/SQL FTS
> http://www.indexserverfaq.com
> "Ray Lewis" <dav5489@.hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:uO9gjUYJFHA.4060@.TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
wizard,
> I
>
|||Hi,
is the login used to configure the publication a member of the 'system administrators'? I had a similar problem when creating a pull subscription and this solved it!
Bruno

Quote:

Originally posted by Ray Lewis
I'm trying to publish a database and when I get to the end of the wizard, I
am greeted by this message:
SQL Server Enterprise Manager could not configure 'SERVERNAME' as the
Distributor for 'SERVERNAME'.
Error 18483: Could not connect to server 'SERVERNAME' because
'distributor_admin' is not defined as a remote login at the server.
The MS articles did not help me. Can someone, please?
Wack
This message will self destruct.

sql

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>'
>

Error 18456 Login failed for user 'distributor_admin'

Hello,
Each time I try to configure my SQL 2000 server as a distributor using the
Wizard I get the following error message:
Error 18456 Login failed for user 'distributor_admin'
Can anyone help with this?
Regards
Dave
are you using a remote distributor?
If do your Publisher has the incorrect administrative link password. Connect
to your Publisher in EM. Go to Tools, replication, configure publishers,
Subscribers, and distributor, and click on the Publisher's tab. In the
Administrative link password dialog enter the administrative link password.
Hilary Cotter
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"Dave" <dave.cartlidge@.gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hello,
> Each time I try to configure my SQL 2000 server as a distributor using the
> Wizard I get the following error message:
> Error 18456 Login failed for user 'distributor_admin'
> Can anyone help with this?
> Regards
> Dave
|||Check to make sure that the computer you are trying to access which has the
group 'distributor_admin' actually has the administrative access it
requires, both in the security file for the server and in the user security
for the individual database. If you play with file permissions, you may
want to check those as well. If you don't work with the file permissions
forget I added this. If you are on a network and the network administrator
has not enabled the administrator rights for the 'distributor_admin' group,
you may need to ask the administrator to grant the permission over the
network.
Giac
"Dave" <dave.cartlidge@.gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hello,
> Each time I try to configure my SQL 2000 server as a distributor using the
> Wizard I get the following error message:
> Error 18456 Login failed for user 'distributor_admin'
> Can anyone help with this?
> Regards
> Dave
|||Sorry, I should have given a bit more info. I'm trying to set up one
machine to replicate the contents of one table to a second machine
(not located in the same place)
I figured I needed to set Machine A up as a distibutor and then allow
Machine B to have a subscription.
I don't have the 'Publisher's tab' as I have not configured it to be a
publisher yet, this I can't do as I get the aforementioned error.
I can't see a login 'distributor_admin' in Ent Mgr.
I was assuming (maybe incorrectly) that I don't need to do anything on
Machine B in order to be able to set up the publishing side on Machine
A.
Hope this helps you to help me
Dave
|||Dave,
You're in over my head, but it sounds like a permissions error.
If you go to services and select the properties of your server, you'll see
the account that the machine starts in. Check to see that account is
someone who is in the 'distributor_admin' group. You can browse for it
there - and both sides need to be members of that group since it appears to
have the permission to run the transaction.
Hope this helps.
Giac
"Dave" <dave.cartlidge@.gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Sorry, I should have given a bit more info. I'm trying to set up one
> machine to replicate the contents of one table to a second machine
> (not located in the same place)
> I figured I needed to set Machine A up as a distibutor and then allow
> Machine B to have a subscription.
> I don't have the 'Publisher's tab' as I have not configured it to be a
> publisher yet, this I can't do as I get the aforementioned error.
> I can't see a login 'distributor_admin' in Ent Mgr.
> I was assuming (maybe incorrectly) that I don't need to do anything on
> Machine B in order to be able to set up the publishing side on Machine
> A.
> Hope this helps you to help me
> Dave
|||"Giacomo" <anonymous@.msnewsgroups.com> wrote in message news:<#HHn#qLbEHA.3792@.TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl>...
> Dave,
> You're in over my head, but it sounds like a permissions error.
> If you go to services and select the properties of your server, you'll see
> the account that the machine starts in. Check to see that account is
> someone who is in the 'distributor_admin' group. You can browse for it
> there - and both sides need to be members of that group since it appears to
> have the permission to run the transaction.
> Hope this helps.
> Giac
I don't have a 'distributor_admin' group in either Ent Mgr or Computer Manager.
|||Dave,
see if this link applies to you - there are 2 workarounds suggested, one of
which is the same as Hilary's first reply.
http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;Q225129
HTH,
Paul Ibison
|||Thanks for the suggestions. I had set up an alias sql server as the
default had been set up as (local) which would not work.
In the end I just removed and re-added the only registration so that
it had the same name as the server and all worked fine.
Thanks again
sql