Microsoft KB Archive/226368

= SMS: NAL May Search Mapped Drives for Network DLLs =

Article ID: 226368

Article Last Modified on 10/25/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Systems Management Server 1.2 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Systems Management Server 2.0 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q226368



SYMPTOMS
If your path contains network drives, the Network Abstraction Layer (NAL) may search those network drives for network DLLs. This may lead to increased network traffic. To work around this problem, remove network drives from the path.



CAUSE
NAL uses the Win32 API LoadLibrary to load network DLLs. NAL calls LoadLibrary without specifying a path for the network DLLs. LoadLibrary searches for the network DLLs in the following sequence:
 * 1) The directory from which the application loaded.
 * 2) The current directory.
 * 3) Windows 95/98: The Windows System directory. Use the GetSystemDirectory function to get the path of this directory.

Windows NT/2000: The 32-bit Windows system directory. Use the GetSystemDirectory function to get the path of this directory. The name of this directory is System32.
 * 1) Windows NT/2000: The 16-bit Windows system directory. There is no function that obtains the path of this directory, but it is searched. The name of this directory is System.
 * 2) The Windows directory. Use the GetWindowsDirectory function to get the path of this directory.
 * 3) The directories that are listed in the PATH environment variable.



RESOLUTION
To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Systems Management Server 2.0. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

236325 How to Obtain the Latest Systems Management Server 2.0 Service Pack



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in Systems Management Server 2.0. This problem was first corrected in Systems Management Server 2.0 Service Pack 1.

Additional query words: prodsms NAL

Keywords: kbqfe kbhotfixserver kbbug kbfix kbnetwork KB226368

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