Configure Downstream Leased SDLC Connection Causes Error 3992

• Microsoft SNA Server for Windows NT, version 2.11 Service Pack 1

SYMPTOMS

You will get the following error when you configure a Downstream Leased SDLC connection:

   Error: 3992

   Leased SDLC connections cannot support Incoming Calls.

   Leased connections do not require either end to initiate the
   connection, therefore both ends treat the connection as
   Outgoing Calls only.

CAUSE

SNA Server 2.11 Service Pack 1 included a fix that changed the default Allowed Directions for Downstream Connections to Incoming Calls.

For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   ARTICLE-ID: Q139423
   TITLE     : Downstream Connection Should Default to Incoming Calls

WORKAROUND

Use SNA Server Admin to create a new SDLC connection specifying Remote End as Host System. After you configure this connection, go back into the Connection Properties for this connection and change Remote End to Downstream.

WORKAROUND

SNA Server Admin has been updated to check whether a new downstream SDLC connection is Leased before defaulting the Allowed Directions setting to Incoming Calls.

STATUS

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

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