Falcon 5250 Emulator May GP Fault While Opening Second Session (160883)



The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft SNA Server 2.11 SP1
  • Microsoft SNA Server 3.0

This article was previously published under Q160883

SYMPTOMS

When opening a second 5250 session with the Falcon 5250 emulator, the following error message may appear:
A General Protection fault occurred at 000B:21A8 in the following
module:
WDMOD.DLL.

CAUSE

The LU resource location optimization introduced into the SNA Server 2.11 Service Pack 1 (SP1) win3.x client caused this to occur. This optimization will be present in all future releases of SNA Server as well.

RESOLUTION

To work around this problem, do one of the following:
  • Install the SNA Server 2.11 client in place of the SNA Server 2.11 SP1 client.

    -or-
  • Apply the SNA Server 2.11 Windows 3.x hotfix, or upgrade the Windows 3.x client to SNA Server 3.0, and add the following entry in the [wnap] section of the win.ini:

    211ResLoc=Yes

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in SNA Server version 2.11 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and in version 3.0. This problem was corrected in the latest Microsoft SNA Server version 2.11 and 3.0 U.S. Service Packs. For information on obtaining these service packs, query on the following word in the Microsoft Knowledge Base (without the spaces):

S E R V P A C K


Modification Type:MajorLast Reviewed:11/4/2003
Keywords:kbnetwork KB160883