Microsoft KB Archive/321745

= A Windows 2000-based computer that is running COM or COM+ may stop responding when any client computers are running Windows 95 or Windows 98 =

Article ID: 321745

Article Last Modified on 12/21/2004

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft COM+ 1.0
 * Microsoft Windows 98 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition

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This article was previously published under Q321745





SYMPTOMS
Microsoft Windows 2000-based computers that are running Microsoft COM+ or Microsoft COM server-side applications may stop responding to any remote procedure call (RPC) request if any client computers are running Microsoft Windows 98.



CAUSE
A bug in DCOM 1.3 on Windows 98-based computers can cause Windows 2000 Server to stop responding to any RPC requests. RPC threads on the Windows 2000 Server computer that try to contact the Windows 98 client computer are indefinitely blocked, and the RPC threads cannot handle any more RPC client requests.



RESOLUTION
To resolve this bug, you must install a hotfix on all Windows 98 client machines. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

315575 DCOM Program Hangs After Server Reboot Creating DCOM Object



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a bug in the Microsoft products that are listed in the &quot;Applies to&quot; section of this article.

Keywords: kbbug kbfix KB321745

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