Cannot Connect to Windows NT Server with Many Shares (160807)
The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft Windows 95
- Microsoft Windows 95 OEM Service Release 2
- Microsoft Windows 95 OEM Service Release 2.1
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.1
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.5
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.51
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0
This article was previously published under Q160807 SYMPTOMS
You may experience problems connecting to a share on a Windows NT server
from a Windows 95 workstation if the Windows NT server has a large number
of shares.
Specific symptoms may include:
CAUSE
In some scenarios, Windows 95 determines whether a share exists on an SMB
server by getting the list of shares from the server, then searching for
the specified share name in the data returned. The SMB protocol used to
get the list of shares is limited to a total data size of 64K. If the list
of shares is too large, not all names fit within the 64K data block. If
the specified share is not included in the partial list returned, the
operation does not work.
RESOLUTION
To work around this issue, use one or more of the following methods:
- Reduce the number of shares on the Windows NT server.
- Reduce the length of the share names on the server.
- Reduce the length of the comments on the shares.
This issue is resolved by the following updated file for Windows 95
(retail and OSR1), and later versions of this file:
SHELL32.DLL version 4.00.955 dated 9/30/96 817,664 bytes
This issue is resolved by the following updated file for Windows 95 OEM
Service Release 2 (OSR2), 2.1 and 2.5, and later versions of this file:
SHELL32.DLL version 4.00.1112 dated 9/25/97 819,200 bytes
STATUSMicrosoft has confirmed that this is a problem in Microsoft Windows 95 andOEM 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.
Modification Type: | Minor | Last Reviewed: | 9/22/2005 |
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Keywords: | kbHotfixServer kbQFE kberrmsg kbnetwork kbprb KB160807 |
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