Article ID: 126560
Article Last Modified on 11/1/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.5
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.5
This article was previously published under Q126560
SYMPTOMS
When you run NET VIEW or NET USE, you may receive the following error message:
A trace of network activity shows repeated pairs of the following messages:
workstation->server: SYN
server->workstation: ACK, RST
The following STOP message may also appear:
This problem occurs on servers with very heavy NetBIOS traffic over TCP/IP.
CAUSE
When netbt receives a zero length message, it fails to update the number of bytes left in the transport. As a result, when the connection is later disconnected, it never receives disconnect indication from the transport, leaving the connection unusable. After all connections are exhausted, new connections are not accepted.
STATUS
NETBT.SYS has been modified so that it correctly handles 0 length messages.
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Windows NT version 3.5. This problem has been corrected in the latest U.S. Service Pack for Windows NT version 3.5. For information on obtaining the Service Pack, query on the following word in the Microsoft Knowledge Base (without the spaces):
S E R V P A C K
Additional query words: 3.50 prodnt trap blue screen
Keywords: KB126560
