Exception error in snapshot agent

Greetings,
We are using SQLServer 2000 and
we are replicating one server to another using merge replication... It has
been working fine
but all of the sudden, we are getting "An exception occurred in the Snapshot
subsystem"...
I've tried re-creating the publication a number of times but always the same
error with the Snapshot...
I've looked through all the log files but can't find any additional info
about the error.
Does anyone have any suggestion as to where or what to look for?
Thanks in advance.
Hi Steve,
From what you described below, it looks like the replication subsystem for
launching the snapshot agent from SQLServerAgent is crashing. You may want to
try stopping and restarting the SQLServerAgent service and see if that
resolves the problem.
If you are running a version of SQL2000 < SP4, the crash may also be due to
an inproperly handled COM error in the replication subsystem of
SQLServerAgent. As such, upgrading your SQL2000 instance to SP4 may provide
you with a more descriptive error of the underlying problem. If you do get a
more descriptive error after upgrading to SP4, you may be able to find a
solution by searching for the error string on the Microsoft Support web site.
HTH
-Raymond
"Steve Stoenner" wrote:

> Greetings,
> We are using SQLServer 2000 and
> we are replicating one server to another using merge replication... It has
> been working fine
> but all of the sudden, we are getting "An exception occurred in the Snapshot
> subsystem"...
> I've tried re-creating the publication a number of times but always the same
> error with the Snapshot...
> I've looked through all the log files but can't find any additional info
> about the error.
> Does anyone have any suggestion as to where or what to look for?
> Thanks in advance.
>
>