We are having trouble with an installation that is
running indirect replication over a dial up connection.  
Originally the setup was working fine for about a year and
a half and then the east machines' drive broke and had to

I have an access database that is split into a front end and back end.
It is a relatively small (back end < 10 MB) database that we now want to
share with a sister company in Brazil.  We need to synchronize the back
ends since we will each be running an independent copy of the ...

i was wondering if the internet replication is using ports other than port
80 for the replication? We have set up an internet replication on a
broadband internet connection with a fixed ip-address. When we try to
synchronise over the internet we get either one of the two following ...

We have a customer where about 20 people are synchronizing (direct) to
the main database from their laptops.  This has been working perfectly
for the past 5 years.  Lately we have some synchronizations that show
up as "Incomplete" in the replication manager.  They stay like this,

I used the utility to unreplicate a database and, after the unreplication
process, noticed that the resulting database is no longer user-level
protected. In fact, if I use the default system.mdw group file and run
access to open the unreplicated db I can view records and modify any ...

I'm not sure if this is the right place for this...
I've got an access database with several related tables, with guids for
primary keys on the various tables.
I need to create a copy of the database, with "new" primary keys generated

I downloaded the update for the synchronizer on Microsoft's site
(under URL http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=320805 )
And I saw that the versions number difference is quite big :
Before I had version 4.0.2521.8 and now 4.0.6508.0.

Client is running Windows 2000 SP3, Office XP SP2.  They
have 3 sites (WAN), the master site replicates with the
other 2 sites every half hour via indirect sync.
At each site they have 3 main users and up to 10 other

Is there a way to delete the rows in the MsysTombstone table with code or
manually?
What is the usage of this table?
Thanks in advance.

What is the quickest, recomended way to get replication manger set up on a
new server to resume managing an existing database and replicas?
Any suggestions for making this a fast and easy process or comments about
actions to avoid would be appreciated.

I am getting "This Member of the replica set has conflicts
from synchronizing with other members"  When I look at the
Conflict Viewer I see <No conflict tables>.  There were
two records in conflict, I tried to resolve them with the

I am trying to compact a secure replica prior to
synchronisation using the jetengine compactdatabase
method. As part of the Data Source declaration I have
provided a valid user Id and password for an admin user.  

I have a VB application that regularly synchronizes a db on the local
computer with DB's on other computers in the LAN, using the direct
synchronization. For that I use TSI. The local database is set as
designmaster, but whenever it is synchronized, it it set as replicate.