So, I have a really weird case. Was doing a migration from sql server 2005 to 2012. Built the server, and at the last minute we found that the server was called abc/xyz. We just wanted abc, so the DBA did a bunch of stuff including dropping servernames and adding entries to the TCPIP and now we have abc!
Now, I come to creating a publisher. Start by configuring a distributor, and it fails. I get the message that the abc cannot be configured as a distributor because it cannot connect to abc/xyz (old server name) since 'distributor_admin' is not defined as a remote login at the server.
If I do select @@servername, the answer is abc. If I do sp_helpserver I see that a linkedserver has been created to repl_distributor to abc/xyx (old server).
I've tried editing repl_distributor to point to an actual server, but thus far, no success.
Any ideas? I'm totally stuck.