Things to remember when setting up replication

1. Set up replication domain accounts for publisher and subscriber before you begin.
2. Make sure that these accounts have access to the servers
3. Make sure that the snapshot folder is on the correct server, in the correct place. If you get this wrong, right click on 'Replication -->Distributor Properties --> the button with the ellipsis (...)next to the publisher in question'. However when I tried this, it all went wrong, so I started all over again.
4. Make sure that the publisher's account has access to the folder in which you are putting your snapshots.
5. Make sure that the subscriber's account has read access to the folder in which you are putting your snapshots. Do this before generating a snapshot, it takes rather longer after you've generated the snapshot.
6. Make sure that you use the full path, not a mapped drive i.e. \\myservername\r$\my folder\my subfolder instead of r:\my folder\my subfolder
7. If you get a warning telling you that it's unlikely that Pull Subscriptions will be able to read that folder, without having admin rights on the Publisher Server, then heed it.
8. It will be vastly easier to set up a Push Subscription in this scenario. For a Snapshot Replication that runs at midnight, this is probably preferable.
9. There are at least six different places to check for replication problems, and it's probably not the top tab of the Replication Monitor. Try checking the other agents and the SQL Log.
10. When setting up a Pull Replication for the first time, set it up to run 'on demand'. You can change the schedule in SQL Agent later.
11. Make sure that the Snapshot Agent has successfully completed before trying to run any sort of Push or Pull Subscription. It saves heartache.
12. Give the Publication a reasonably descriptive name, which should at the very least say where it is from. If it is going to multiple places, stating where it's going could be harder.