>>>>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:
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>>[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
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>Security isn't a strong point of mine, so this is just a guess, that some read permissions might be missing.
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>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:
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>http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/27f62fc2-aa74-4c9c-b559-b65b20d6bbb3/could-not-obtain-information-about-windows-nt-groupuser-domainuser-error-code-0x5?forum=winserverDS


Thank you for that, but it does speak to a situation where the server(s) are on a domain. Mine are not. They are on separate work-groups.

When I create the replication, I am using my account with windows authentication, and it seems to create the jobs for that with my windows account as the owner. I go in afterward and change the owner of the jobs to the SQL account created for that purpose, but that does fix the problem.

Correction: Should have said "but that does NOT fix the problem."
Sorry if that was confusing.