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Weird issue on client laptop

A user is having issues with replication. The message states it can't
find a database. This database is on the distributor. When I go to
Enterprise manager and add that server with a valid logon (I even
tried logging on as sa), and I look at the databases. They are NOT
the databases that exist on that server. They are the databases that
are on the client (laptop)'s SQL Server. I've reinstalled sp3 (SQL
2000), and rebooted. Went to SQL Query Analyzer and connected to that
server, and still could not see the databases that exist on that
server (still showing the local sql server's databases).

I can connect to the publisher, and other servers that are running sql
server, and they show the correct databases. No one else is having
this problem.

Has anyone out there ever seen this before? (I couldn't find a virus
on the laptop either).

Thanks,

Amy M
Jul 20 '05 #1
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am*******@rhtc.net (Amy M) wrote in message news:<11**************************@posting.google. com>...
A user is having issues with replication. The message states it can't
find a database. This database is on the distributor. When I go to
Enterprise manager and add that server with a valid logon (I even
tried logging on as sa), and I look at the databases. They are NOT
the databases that exist on that server. They are the databases that
are on the client (laptop)'s SQL Server. I've reinstalled sp3 (SQL
2000), and rebooted. Went to SQL Query Analyzer and connected to that
server, and still could not see the databases that exist on that
server (still showing the local sql server's databases).

I can connect to the publisher, and other servers that are running sql
server, and they show the correct databases. No one else is having
this problem.

Has anyone out there ever seen this before? (I couldn't find a virus
on the laptop either).

Thanks,

Amy M


Is there a client alias in the client network utility perhaps? Or some
sort of name resolution issue? If you connect to the server by IP
address instead of the name, is it correct?

Simon
Jul 20 '05 #2
sq*@hayes.ch (Simon Hayes) wrote in message news:<60*************************@posting.google.c om>...
am*******@rhtc.net (Amy M) wrote in message news:<11**************************@posting.google. com>...
A user is having issues with replication. The message states it can't
find a database. This database is on the distributor. When I go to
Enterprise manager and add that server with a valid logon (I even
tried logging on as sa), and I look at the databases. They are NOT
the databases that exist on that server. They are the databases that
are on the client (laptop)'s SQL Server. I've reinstalled sp3 (SQL
2000), and rebooted. Went to SQL Query Analyzer and connected to that
server, and still could not see the databases that exist on that
server (still showing the local sql server's databases).

I can connect to the publisher, and other servers that are running sql
server, and they show the correct databases. No one else is having
this problem.

Has anyone out there ever seen this before? (I couldn't find a virus
on the laptop either).

Thanks,

Amy M


Is there a client alias in the client network utility perhaps? Or some
sort of name resolution issue? If you connect to the server by IP
address instead of the name, is it correct?

Simon


Simon,

Thanks. I will try doing that as soon as I can get his laptop back.

Amy
Jul 20 '05 #3
am*******@rhtc.net (Amy M) wrote in message news:<11*************************@posting.google.c om>...
sq*@hayes.ch (Simon Hayes) wrote in message news:<60*************************@posting.google.c om>...
am*******@rhtc.net (Amy M) wrote in message news:<11**************************@posting.google. com>...
A user is having issues with replication. The message states it can't
find a database. This database is on the distributor. When I go to
Enterprise manager and add that server with a valid logon (I even
tried logging on as sa), and I look at the databases. They are NOT
the databases that exist on that server. They are the databases that
are on the client (laptop)'s SQL Server. I've reinstalled sp3 (SQL
2000), and rebooted. Went to SQL Query Analyzer and connected to that
server, and still could not see the databases that exist on that
server (still showing the local sql server's databases).

I can connect to the publisher, and other servers that are running sql
server, and they show the correct databases. No one else is having
this problem.

Has anyone out there ever seen this before? (I couldn't find a virus
on the laptop either).

Thanks,

Amy M


Is there a client alias in the client network utility perhaps? Or some
sort of name resolution issue? If you connect to the server by IP
address instead of the name, is it correct?

Simon


Simon,

Thanks. I will try doing that as soon as I can get his laptop back.

Amy


Simon,

There was a problem with IP name resolution concerning a web program
that our users use to connect while in motels, and the host file had
several weird IP addresses attached to several servers, and once
deleted, the problem was resolved.

Thanks,

Amy
Jul 20 '05 #4

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