Article ID: 193839
Article Last Modified on 2/24/2007
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Edition
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Developer Edition
- Microsoft BackOffice Server 4.0
This article was previously published under Q193839
SUMMARY
Certain conditions, which can report a network error to the event log, are caused by a non-destructive Server Message Block (SMB) message also known a "Status Message." Most commonly the error reported in the event log is network error event 2012. It is a nondestructive event that should not cause any loss of functionality.
MORE INFORMATION
This condition can be caused by a STATUS_BUFFER_OVERFLOW SMB error. The STATUS_BUFFER_OVERFLOW error is normal when reading from named pipes. This occurs when a client has a read request and the requested information exceeds the clients current read buffer size as the client advertised it during the initial read request. The client requests a read of x bytes. The server responds and may set status to STATUS_BUFFER_OVERFLOW to inform the client that there is more data in its buffer than it could put in the packet.
It is a nondestructive event that should not cause any loss of functionality. It is important to verify that the STATUS_BUFFER_OVERFLOW error is seen in the packet capture because event 2012 can be caused by other destructive events, which may impact the network.
Additional query words: STATUS_BUFFER_OVERFLOW 2012 network
Keywords: kbinfo KB193839
