Hi -

I seem to be making progress, but the problem is not yet solved.  I now am able to do an uninstall/reinstall of MSDE so the (reinstall) log file reports...

Thanks for your response Oli -

I think my problem is more with the uninstall process than with the install process.  Admittedly, there may be something I should be doing on...

Thanks for your response, Julian -

I'm not really trying to 'access MSDE,' I'm trying to install it. All I'm doing to install it is run Microsoft's setup.exe. I've taken a...

Hi, Mike -

I'm glad you solved your problem.

Are you saying that you now can take an existing SQLCE database (with data) and subscribe it to a new SQL2K database publication...

Hi, Mike -

The short answer to your question is 'Well, sort of ....'

By design (Thanks, MS) it doesn't appear to be possible to do what I want to do directly.

The...

Thanks, Melissa, but I've done that.

Although the KB article seems to refer to the same errors, the cause that it describes is not what I'm experiencing.

The only constraint in my...

Thanks, Melissa, but no success -

I tried your suggested approach, even tried deleting/recreating both databases and the publication.  I made sure that 'Keep existing table unchanged' was selected for the...