Hi Perry,

Thanks for your response. Although the steps in the article you referred to were pretty much what I had done before, I started from scratch and followed the instructions (hopefully correctly) and still no joy.

I have established that the TCP ports are open and with the command "telnet 192.168.11.xx 5022" I seem to be getting a successful connection via CMD shell.

But I still am getting the same error from the principal sql instance.

Is it possible that the databases are not in-synch enough?

Tom