Cannot create subscriber on MSDE2000

I am very new at SQL replication. I set up a publication and distributor at
our SQL 2000 server. All went fine. Now I am trying to create a laptop
subscriber to use (I think) an anonymous subscription. I setup the laptop
with MSDE 2000 SP3. I now want to create a subscription while connected to
the network. I want to use the Windows Syncronizer to synch the database.
I cannot find out how to create the initial subscription database on the
laptop. When I try to manually configure the Windows Synchronizer, I get an
error "The process could not access database 'MCFIData' on server 'LAPTOP1'.
Database is invalid or cannot be accessed"
Well DUH...I was told that it would be created if it does not exist. Any
help would be appreciated. Thanks.
David
Ignore this. I did not have the SQL Agent running on the laptop with MSDE
2000 SP3. I'm not sure why, but there was no prompt for this option when I
installed MSDE. Also there was no instruction to do so on the documentation
for setting up MSDE to be a subsriber!
David
"David" <dlchase@.lifetimeinc.com> wrote in message
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>I am very new at SQL replication. I set up a publication and distributor
>at our SQL 2000 server. All went fine. Now I am trying to create a laptop
>subscriber to use (I think) an anonymous subscription. I setup the laptop
>with MSDE 2000 SP3. I now want to create a subscription while connected to
>the network. I want to use the Windows Syncronizer to synch the database.
>I cannot find out how to create the initial subscription database on the
>laptop. When I try to manually configure the Windows Synchronizer, I get
>an error "The process could not access database 'MCFIData' on server
>'LAPTOP1'. Database is invalid or cannot be accessed"
> Well DUH...I was told that it would be created if it does not exist. Any
> help would be appreciated. Thanks.
> David
>