I try to replicate between 2 distant servers seen by IP address.

and when it merges, at the end of the merging I have the message : The server is not register as subscriber server, despite I used the wizards and it registered it as a subscription server.

I even went to the menu tools/replication/configure distributor and registered the server as subscriber.

Is there a difference beween subcriber and subscription server ?

I did trace the replication log with distrib.exe -output : but I just saw : the subcriber xx is not a valid server.

I can transaction-replicate with to this remote server very well and I can merge-replicate from the source server (distributor) to another (local) server very well.

Does somebody know what happen.

I succeded to merge replicate between those 2 servers a few time ago.

Thank you very much.

Laurent.