Microsoft KB Archive/149606

Fatal Exception 0E in VNETBIOS Using NetWare Login Script

Q149606

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Windows 95

SYMPTOMS

When you are using the Microsoft Client for NetWare Networks, if your user name contains 13 or more characters and a capture statement is processed in your login script, you may receive the following error message:

An exception 0E has occurred at 00XX:XXXXXXXX in VxD VNETBIOS

CAUSE

The error occurs when Windows 95 tries to close the virtual machine created to process a program in the login script. The error occurs because Windows 95 uses an incorrect address for information needed to close the virtual machine.

RESOLUTION

This issue is resolved by the following updated file for Windows 95 and OSR2, and later versions of this file:

For the Bindery (non-NDS) version of the Microsoft Client for NetWare Networks:
```
      NWREDIR.VXD  version 4.00.953  dated 3/29/96  123,987 bytes 
```
For the NDS version of the Microsoft Client for NetWare Networks (Microsoft Service for NetWare Directory Services):
```
      NWREDIR.VXD  version 4.00.969  dated 7/30/96  174,618 bytes 
```

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Windows 95 and OEM Service Release 2 (OSR2). An update to address this problem is now available, but is not fully regression tested and should be applied only to computers experiencing this specific problem. Unless you are severely impacted by this specific problem, Microsoft does not recommend implementing this update at this time. Contact Microsoft Technical Support for additional information about the availability of this update.

This issue is resolved in Microsoft Windows 98.

MORE INFORMATION

For additional information about issues resolved by updates to this component, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q177222 NetWare Printers or Volumes Unavailable in Windows 95

Q165402 Windows 95 Update to Encrypt Passwords in Memory

Q163673 "Exception 0E" Using MSNDS Over Dial-Up Connection

Q160897 NWRedir Reports Incorrect Free Space If Limited by Admin

Q160824 MSNDS Drops Connections to More Than Eight Servers

Q158058 MSNDS Client Does Not Prompt to Log On

Q153470 Incorrect Error Code Returned for Locked Files

Q152186 Possible Network Data Corruption If Locking Not Used

Q151912 NWRedir Returns Cached File Size Information

Q147838 Cannot Access Folders with Long File Names on NetWare Servers

Q143282 No Documents Appear in the File Open Dialog Box

Q139747 MS-DOS-Based Program Reports Not Enough NetWare Server Space

Q136303 Connecting to Schedule+ 1.0 Calendar File Drops Connections

Q132786 Known Issues with MS Print Agent for NetWare (MSPSRV)

For additional information about Windows 95 updates, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q161020 Implementing Windows 95 Updates

Additional query words: novell gpf

Keywords : win95
Issue type : kbprb
Technology : kbWin95search kbWin95