I used the databasejournal article(
http://www.databasejournal.com/featu...le.php/1438231)
to configure the snap shot replication but i dont know how to test whether replication works could some help me?

as mentioned in the article i configured same machine for both publication and subscription. I'm getting the message as 'configured successfully' but it hasn't mentioned about how to start the distribution agent and how to test the process.

i will be pleased if someone could help me out?