Hi Mvrx,

what account are sql service and sql agent running under?

--local ID i created for running of services:

--SQL_ENGINE - for running of service

--SQL_AGENT - for running of agent

There is a step at the end of creating a publication where you setup the replication agent(s) to run under a service account - you might have set that to the SQL Service account which might be local system.

--I have set it to local administrator.

If this is your pc and you don't care for security, you just want to see how replication works, you can add your account to run sql services and let replication use sql account to run under. If you need to do this on a server, you might need to use a different account for replication.

--I tried doing it as well but not working. I have tried to run the replication agent as the service account but still same error.

thanks!