Publication not enabled to use an independent agent

I've created a snapshot replication between 2 databases on 2 different
servers to run once a day. The snapshot has worked but when the
distribution job runs it fails within a few seconds. I've looked at the
job history and the following error message is recorded:
Publication 'EmailDB' is not enabled to use an independent agent. The
step failed.
I think this may be because I've defined the publication so that
anonymous pull subscriptions are not allowed. If not does anyone know
what the problem could be. If it is how do I alter the publication so
that they are allowed - the option doesn't appear to be changeable with
the publication properties window in EM.
TIA
Laurence Breeze
drop your subscriptions and try this
sp_changepublication 'pubs4','independent_agent','true'
Hilary Cotter
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"Laurence Breeze" <laurence_breeze@.yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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> I've created a snapshot replication between 2 databases on 2 different
> servers to run once a day. The snapshot has worked but when the
> distribution job runs it fails within a few seconds. I've looked at the
> job history and the following error message is recorded:
> Publication 'EmailDB' is not enabled to use an independent agent. The
> step failed.
> I think this may be because I've defined the publication so that
> anonymous pull subscriptions are not allowed. If not does anyone know
> what the problem could be. If it is how do I alter the publication so
> that they are allowed - the option doesn't appear to be changeable with
> the publication properties window in EM.
> TIA
> Laurence Breeze
>