Merge Replication between MSDE doesn't work!

Hello!

I have a problem with creating Merge replication between two instances of MSDE 2000. In the article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/324992/, published by Microsoft, described, that it is possible.

I am creating Merge Publication at MSDE 2000, with Distributor and Publisher configured at same machine, with options "Allow Pull Subscriptions" and "Allow Anonymous Subscriptions". There is no problem with creating of Publication. Even snapshot generation finishes successfully. Also I create a login with SQL Server Authentication and "System Administrators" database role at the publisher in order to connect to it from Subscriber.

The problem occurs, when creating anonymous pull subscription to this publication at another instance of MSDE. During initial synchronization an error occurs:

The process could not connect to Distributor '<publisher_server_name>'. Login failed for user '<login_created_at_publisher>'. Reason: Not associated with a trusted SQL Server connection. The step failed.

Although I didn't use Windows Authentication at all, so Subscriber doesn't need to connect to Distributor using trusted SQL Server connection.

What is a problem and how can I workaround?

Note: The same works correctly, if MS SQL Server used as a Publisher instead of MSDE.

Please, help!

I can provide publication and subscription creation scripts, if required.

Guys, don't care anymore: I found the reason!!!

Probably, the problem was in using an old version of MSDE, and installing MSDE with SP4 solved it!

However, there are still some problems with connecting to MSDE from a remote workstation via named pipes, but I think I can research it independently.

Thanks for consideration!