How to create second publisher record on the server?

Hello...
What we are trying to accomplish is to be able to replicate from Sql Server 2000 to some laptops running MSDE across the internet. These laptops are NOT part of our domain. I have set up a publication to allow for anonymous pull subscriptions for transa
ctional replication. Everything works fine now...except that for my test I had to setup/configure the laptop with a Hosts and LMHosts file so that it could resolve the server's name from its fully qualified name. This will be a pain for us to implement
and deploy....as we will have hundreds of client machines connecting to our server. The problem has to do with a sql server table that stores the name of the server publisher & distributor.
I noticed (via the sql server profiler tool) that when replication begins, there is some intial login/handshaking that occurs and one of the principal commands that gets executed is something like: exec sp_helpdistpublisher N'ServerName'. This stored pr
oc queries the MSDistPublisher table in the MSDB database. The stored proc returns a single row of data which includes our server's name...as it has been setup...it's machine name. This table does not include (obviously) a record that has the server's fu
lly qualified domain name (ServerName.Domain.Com).
My question is: is there a way to add an additional row of data and use the fully qualified domain name?
thanks for any help.
- DW
in your application, can't you hard code the publisher name with the FQDN
for the publisher/distributor?
Hilary Cotter
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"DW" <DW@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hello...
> What we are trying to accomplish is to be able to replicate from Sql
Server 2000 to some laptops running MSDE across the internet. These laptops
are NOT part of our domain. I have set up a publication to allow for
anonymous pull subscriptions for transactional replication. Everything
works fine now...except that for my test I had to setup/configure the laptop
with a Hosts and LMHosts file so that it could resolve the server's name
from its fully qualified name. This will be a pain for us to implement and
deploy....as we will have hundreds of client machines connecting to our
server. The problem has to do with a sql server table that stores the name
of the server publisher & distributor.
> I noticed (via the sql server profiler tool) that when replication begins,
there is some intial login/handshaking that occurs and one of the principal
commands that gets executed is something like: exec sp_helpdistpublisher
N'ServerName'. This stored proc queries the MSDistPublisher table in the
MSDB database. The stored proc returns a single row of data which includes
our server's name...as it has been setup...it's machine name. This table
does not include (obviously) a record that has the server's fully qualified
domain name (ServerName.Domain.Com).
> My question is: is there a way to add an additional row of data and use
the fully qualified domain name?
> thanks for any help.
> - DW