Microsoft KB Archive/59371

= &quot;Name Not Found&quot; Error Sending Messages to Busy DOS WS =

Article ID: 59371

Article Last Modified on 11/1/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft LAN Manager 2.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft LAN Manager 2.1 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q59371



SUMMARY
When an MS-DOS workstation receives a second message while the first message pop-up is still displayed on the screen, the sender receives a confusing set of error messages:

NET3722:An error occurred while sending a message to USERNAME.

NET2273:The message alias cannot be found on the local area network.



MORE INFORMATION
These messages do not accurately describe the problem, which is that the workstation is busy displaying a pop-up and there is no way to get a message through to an MS-DOS workstation at this point. MS-DOS is not a multitasking operating system, and its single thread of execution is busy waiting for either keyboard input or a time-out to exit the netpopup program.

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in MS-DOS LAN Manager versions 1.0, 1.01, 2.0, and 2.1. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

Additional query words: 1.00 1.01 2.00 2.10

Keywords: KB59371

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