Article ID: 188046
Article Last Modified on 10/27/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Systems Management Server 1.2 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q188046
SYMPTOMS
Program Group Control reports the following error in the Pgc.log file of a client:
CAUSE
Program Group Control requires that the Network Naming Provider (Nnp.exe) be loaded on a Systems Management Server Windows 95 client.
WORKAROUND
Check the registry entry on the Win95 machine under the
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\RunServices
\<drive>:\Ms\Sms\Bin\Nnp.exe
registry key that loads this executable file. Also ensure that this file exists in the specified path.
MORE INFORMATION
Systems Management Server Client installation creates this registry entry. You may have to restart the client computer for this to be loaded.
Network Naming Provider (NNP) is a system application (running at Ring 3) that provides the non-real time component of the Systems Management Server Router. NNP loads at boot time, reads the system registry for Systems Management Server information, formats that information, and passes it to the Logical Network Redirector (LNR). In addition, NNP verifies server and share status as needed, and updates the information for LNR.
In Systems Management Server 1.2, Windows 95 introduced the NNP to dynamically choose a distribution server. If the distribution server is unavailable, another distribution server is chosen.
For additional information, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
Additional query words: prodsms
Keywords: kbpgc kbprb KB188046
