"Laurence Breeze" <laurence_breeze@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:4240096D.2000305@yahoo.co.uk...
>I don't know if anyone can help with this, I've got replication running
>between 2 SQLServer installations, the distributor is on the the same
>server as subscriber. Replication is a once a day snapshot and all has
>been working well until recently.
>
> I needed to make a change to the replication and deleted and recreated the
> subscription and now it doesn't work. The snapshot runs as before but the
> subscription fails within a second or 2 with the following error:
>
> "The process could not retrieve security information from the Subscriber
> for Distributer 'MIServer'. The step failed."
>
> The only thing I could think of was that somehow the password for the
> 'distributor_admin' login had become out of step. I've run
> 'sp_changedistributor_password' and the subscription still fails.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> TIA
>
> Laurence Breeze
>

It sounds rather similar to this KB article:

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=312106

But you might get a better response in
microsoft.public.sqlserver.replication.

Simon