Microsoft KB Archive/315910

= GetComputerNameEx May Return an Invalid Response on a Cluster Server Node =

Article ID: 315910

Article Last Modified on 10/27/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 2

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This article was previously published under Q315910



SYMPTOMS
Calls to the GetComputerNameExW Win32 API may return an invalid response on a Cluster Server node. The API may always return TRUE even though the name was not returned.



RESOLUTION
To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Windows 2000. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

260910 How to Obtain the Latest Windows 2000 Service Pack

The English version of this fix should have the following file attributes or later:

  Date         Time   Version         Size       File name ---  14-Jan-2002  10:12  5.00.2195.4797     41,744  Basesrv.dll 14-Jan-2002 10:12  5.00.2195.4829    708,880  Kernel32.dll 14-Jan-2002 10:12  5.00.2195.4797    476,432  Ntdll.dll 02-Jan-2002 21:15  5.00.2195.4805  1,688,192  Ntkrnlmp.exe 02-Jan-2002 21:17  5.00.2195.4805  1,687,744  Ntkrnlpa.exe 02-Jan-2002 21:17  5.00.2195.4805  1,708,480  Ntkrpamp.exe 02-Jan-2002 21:15  5.00.2195.4805  1,665,856  Ntoskrnl.exe



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was first corrected in Windows 2000 Service Pack 3.



MORE INFORMATION
For additional information about how to obtain a hotfix for Windows 2000 Datacenter Server, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

265173 The Datacenter Program and Windows 2000 Datacenter Server Product

For additional information about how to install multiple hotfixes with only one reboot, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

296861 How to Install Multiple Windows Updates or Hotfixes with Only One Reboot

Additional query words: kbBaseOS

Keywords: kbhotfixserver kbqfe kbbug kbenv kbfix kboswin2000fix kbwin2000presp3fix kbwin2000sp3fix KB315910

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