Article ID: 128456
Article Last Modified on 10/27/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Systems Management Server 1.1 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q128456
SYMPTOMS
There are two symptoms:
- When you use a Windows 3.1 client to execute a package which requires utilities from the MSTEST directory and the logon server has a server name greater than 11 characters, the client receives the following error: If you execute a package that does not require UNC access to the server, the symptom does not occur.
- When you run the Program Group Control (PGC) that normally produces the shared application group, the following error appears:
These symptoms usually on computers running Windows 3.1 in a NetWare environment where logon servers can have names up to 47 characters in length.
These symptoms do not occur on clients running Windows for Workgroups 3.11.
CAUSE
Windows 3.1 KRNL386.EXE does not allow UNC paths with large server names.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Systems Management Server version 1.1. This problem has been corrected in Systems Management Server version 1.2.
Additional query words: prodsms sms
Keywords: kbnetwork kbpcm kbpgc KB128456