>>>I have two SQL servers (2012) on opposite sides of the country, each on a working group (not a domain). I have set up one to be a publisher and distributor. When I >Thank you for your response. I did get errors. They were all: > >[298] SQL Server Error: 15404, could not obtain information about Windows NT group/user 'Server1\myuser', error code 0x534. [SQLSTATE 42000] (ConnIsLoginSysAdmin) >Log type: SQL Server Agent
Security isn't a strong point of mine, so this is just a guess, that some read permissions might be missing.
Don't take this link as gospel - it might or might not have anything related to what you're doing, but you might want to read through some of the entries here: