Immediate Updating Subscription - Hangs

We have installed SQL Server 2000 on a new server running Windows 2003.
This server is the distirbution Server. It also contains a one database. THis database subscibes to data from other servers and publishes data to other servers.
One of the publications is an updateable subscription. Ths subscription is pushed to the subscriber.
The replication works fine from publisher to subscriber, but when the subscriber attempts an update it just hangs. I see no blocking on either server.
DTC is running on both servers. I executed sp_link_pubisher on the subscriber to populate the publisher login and password in the MSsubscription_properties table.
I must be missing something else.
Can anyone help?
When you say it hangs do you mean it is slow or it doesn't work?
Do you eventually get an error message saying "Access denied"?
If you get this error message, DTC on your Subcriber cannot talk to your Publisher. Its either a name resolution problem, or more likely a permissions problem. Check the accound your SQL Server agent runs under on the Susbcriber and make sure it is part o
f the local administrators group on your Publisher.
Looking for a SQL Server replication book?
http://www.nwsu.com/0974973602.html
|||Thank you Hilary for your prompt reply.
WHat I mean by it hangs is it never completes. And it doesn't appear to time out.
I do feel it is something to do with DTC. I will investigate the account SQL Server agent runs under on the Susbcriber
and make sure it is part of the local administrators group on the Publisher.
If you cant hink of anything else in the meantime, I am all ears.
Thanks again.
|||I verified that the account the SQL Server agent runs under on the Susbcriber is part of the local administrators group on the Publisher.
I do not get an "Access denied" error. I get no response at all.
Can you suggest anything else?
-- Hilary Cotter wrote: --
When you say it hangs do you mean it is slow or it doesn't work?
Do you eventually get an error message saying "Access denied"?
If you get this error message, DTC on your Subcriber cannot talk to your Publisher. Its either a name resolution problem, or more likely a permissions problem. Check the accound your SQL Server agent runs under on the Susbcriber and make sure it is p
art of the local administrators group on your Publisher.
Looking for a SQL Server replication book?
http://www.nwsu.com/0974973602.html
|||what does your msdtc log say. It can be found in
C:\WINDOWS\System32\MSDtc
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> I verified that the account the SQL Server agent runs under on the
Susbcriber is part of the local administrators group on the Publisher.
> I do not get an "Access denied" error. I get no response at all.
> Can you suggest anything else?
> -- Hilary Cotter wrote: --
> When you say it hangs do you mean it is slow or it doesn't work?
> Do you eventually get an error message saying "Access denied"?
> If you get this error message, DTC on your Subcriber cannot talk to
your Publisher. Its either a name resolution problem, or more likely a
permissions problem. Check the accound your SQL Server agent runs under on
the Susbcriber and make sure it is part of the local administrators group on
your Publisher.
> Looking for a SQL Server replication book?
> http://www.nwsu.com/0974973602.html
>
|||Helen,
The DTC log contains mostly non-displayable characters. Same for the Trace. Is there a tool I should be using to read this file?
|||My problem is resolved.
The trouble was that with Windows 2003, Enable network DTC access is not "enabled" by default. Once I enabled this, everything works fine.
Thanks for your help.