:w00t: Sorry about that (I'm an idiot) - have fixed it in the forum. You are a superstar

First of All a Massive KUDOS to Lynn to whom I am eternally grateful. Without his help I would probably be smashing up the server room with a lump hammer...

Thank you - if I find out anything I'll post here

No further forward, On my test server I installed two instances of SQL server and repeated my previous mirroring steps, using the same ports and the same domain admin account...

OK, tried to do with a much smaller database in case it was a problem with size but no joy 🙁

Anyway....

Firstly I logged into SQL on both servers using the...

Thank you so much Lynn, you're a star. I tried granting Public rights to the endpoint and it still gives me that error.

No joy unfortunately, I started over recreated the security and the endpoints (there is no encryption btw). Ensured that the endpoints had started, ran the grant on both servers as...

I am so sorry about mis-spelling your name and I do really appreciate your help

Thanks Lynne, I am just restoring last nights logs to the mirror and then I will probably delete the endpoints and start again (3rd time lucky maybe), I will also...

Hi Lynn.

I guess I didn't explain that properly, what I mean't was the service accounts for the instances I specified the domain administrator to be the service account on both...

Thanks for answering, unfortunately I have tried this and I am always restoring new transaction logs (with no recovery) because it is taking so long to set up. Hmm, if...