PC DirSync: Err Msg: Error 156 Invalid Dirsync Password

 Last reviewed: March 17, 1997
Article ID: Q125917
3.20 MS-DOS kbusage kbtshoot kberrmsg kbbug3.20 kbfix3.20.13

The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Mail for PC Networks, version 3.2

SYMPTOMS

During the T2 phase of directory synchronization (Dir-Sync), when SRVMAIN -r runs, the error 

   Error 156 Invalid Dirsync password from PCM:Network/Postoffice
may be displayed even though the password for that postoffice is correct. If you change the Dir-Sync requester password for this postoffice to NULL using the ADMIN.EXE program, it does not correct the problem.

In ADMIN.EXE, changing the requester password to NULL through Config, Dir-Sync, Server, Requester, Modify updates the SRVCONF.GLB on the Dir-Sync server. This is supposed to bypass the password check.

CAUSE

The error occurs because the password received from the requestor is compared incorrectly against another postoffice (PO) record in SRVCONF.GLB under two conditions.

  1. When the postoffice name in SRVCONF.GLB is similar to or a part of the one from the requestor.

  2. When the order of registration in the SRVCONF.GLB is such that the record for the PO with the shorter name is after the record for the postoffice that is sending the T1 message.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in SRVMAIN.EXE version 3.2a, included with Microsoft Mail for PC Networks. This problem was corrected in SRVMAIN.EXE version 3.2.12.

Additional reference words: 3.20 fatal
KBCategory: kbusage kbtshoot kberrmsg
KBSubcategory: MailPCDirSync

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Last reviewed: March 17, 1997
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