Replication - SQLServer Agent uses System Account

When I attempt to set up replication on my local box, I receive the error -'SQLServer Agent uses the Systems Account, which causes replication betweem servers to fail'.
Why does this happen? And can I overcome this?
Thanks :)
BiancaStart SQLServerAgent service using a domain account. This account must have the appropriate rights on teh Publisher, Distributor and Subscriber computers (depending on the replication type)

Originally posted by Bianca_J
When I attempt to set up replication on my local box, I receive the error -'SQLServer Agent uses the Systems Account, which causes replication betweem servers to fail'.

Why does this happen? And can I overcome this?

Thanks :)

Bianca|||Thank you for your post :)

What is a Domain Account?

Is this set up in Windows 2000? And if I set up a Domain Account in my local Windows 2000 box - how do I have right over a remore server?

Thanks

Bianca

Replication

We have two systems one that has a domain setup and the other is a workgroup. We have them connected over a non-trusted internet connection. We are using SQL Server 2005 Enterprise version, for Peer-to-Peer transactional replication, the server that hasa domain, is called EXT-FRMAC1 and the other one is FRMAC_DC. FRMAC_DC can subscribe to EXT-FRMAC1's publication, but EXT-FRMAC1 can't subscribe to FRMAC_DC, and the error that we get on FRMAC_DC, is that FRMAC_DC\admin - username or password does not exist. admin exists on FRMAC_DC, I am not sure if we should try and put it on a domain or not.

Thanks.

Have you tried to setup with a SQL server account instead of Windows account?

Gary