Error Message in Services for Macintosh When Macintosh Volume Is Indexed (280422)

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Windows 2000 Server SP1
Microsoft Windows 2000 Server SP2
Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP1
Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP2

This article was previously published under Q280422

SYMPTOMS

When you use Windows 2000 and Services for Macintosh, you may receive the following error message on a blue screen:

Stop 0x00000050 ( 0xBF260000, 0x00000000, 0xBF12F2DA, 0x00000000 )

CAUSE

The problem may occur when a Macintosh volume is being indexed because Services for Macintosh is dereferencing a null pointer that was supposed to be a Unicode string.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Windows 2000. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

260910 How to Obtain the Latest Windows 2000 Service Pack

The English version of this fix should have the following file attributes or later:

   Date       Version        Size     File name
   ---------------------------------------------
   06-Apr-01  5.0.2195.3467  152,880  Sfmsrv.sys

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was first corrected in Windows 2000 Service Pack 3.

MORE INFORMATION

For additional information about how to obtain a hotfix for Windows 2000 Datacenter Server, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

265173 The Datacenter Program and Windows 2000 Datacenter Server Product

For additional information about how to install multiple hotfixes with only one reboot, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

296861 Use QChain.exe to Install Multiple Hotfixes with One Reboot

Modification Type:	Minor	Last Reviewed:	9/26/2005
Keywords:	kbHotfixServer kbQFE kbbug kbfix kbnetwork kbWin2000PreSP3Fix kbWin2000sp3fix KB280422