password expiry with HTTPS merge replication

Hi
We are using anonymous HTTPS merge replication.

The windows password used for the client subscriber expired on the publisher.

I reset it on the publisher - but SQL still seems to think that it is not expired - I get the following message in the event log of the publisher running SQL Server 2005

Login failed for user 'XYZ'. Reason: The password of the account has expired. [CLIENT: <local machine>]

Any ideas ?

thanks
Bruce

Two things to try:

1. Reset IIS and attempt to sync again

2. Since you are saying you use anon auth, I believe merge agent is not passing any credentials, just ensure that there is no other auth enabled on IIS.

Also I would suggest against anon authentication and instead use Basic authentication. And maybe you are using your domain\account in the anon auth instead of machine account? That would be more insecure. Strongly suggest you use basic authentication.