distributor_admin not a local user?

The distribution server for my publisher is a live server, and the publisher is a test server that I wish to make it's own distributor. Whenever I try to select it as it's own distributor, I get an error that "distributor_admin" is not a local user. How
do I go about fixing this?
Thanks for your help,
Stephen
Where is your Distributor? Is it on the Publisher?
Is the Subscriber in the same domain as the Publisher?
How did you configure your Subscriber? Can you go to
Tools-Replication-Configure Publishers, Subscribers, Distributors, click on
the Subscribers tab, and click on the browse button (the three ellipses) to
the right of your server name?
Make sure you are using Impersonate the SQL Server Agent account on the
Publisher if you are in the same domain.
"Stephen A." <stephen.accetta@.honeywell.com> wrote in message
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> The distribution server for my publisher is a live server, and the
publisher is a test server that I wish to make it's own distributor.
Whenever I try to select it as it's own distributor, I get an error that
"distributor_admin" is not a local user. How do I go about fixing this?
> Thanks for your help,
> Stephen
|||>>Where is your Distributor? Is it on the Publisher?
No. The distributor is machine A, the publisher is machine B, I wish to
make machine B it's own distributor

Same segment, but the subscriber (Machine C) is not on any domain, I
registered it by IP address. I'm not having any problems with the
subscriber, merely with making the publisher it's own distributor.
click on
ellipses) to
I'll check, but I think so.
the
I already set up a replication account, I merely wish to make the
publisher it's own distributor.
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|||The solution is easy!!! Register servers to SQL by using their names
or aliasses. Do not use ip numbers.