NetWare Programs Fail to Run and Display Error Messages

• Microsoft Windows NT operating system version 3.1
• Microsoft Windows NT Advanced Server version 3.1
• Microsoft Windows NT Workstation versions 3.5 and 3.51
• Microsoft Windows NT Server versions 3.5 and 3.51
• Microsoft Windows NT Server version 4.0
• Microsoft Windows NT Workstation version 4.0

SYMPTOMS

On your computer running Windows NT, when you try to run a NetWare program using Client Services for NetWare (CSNW) or Gateway Services for NetWare (GSNW), your NetWare program fails and displays an error message.

The following are examples of common NetWare programs that fail to run and the resulting error messages that appear:

• SLIST.EXE:

        Error reading server names (-30719)
  

• VOLINFO.EXE, SYSCON.EXE, PCONSOLE.EXE, SESSION.EXE:

        You are not logged into file server. You must be logged in to use
        this utility.
  

• FCONSOLE.EXE:

        File server is running advanced NetWare version 0.00.0. This utility
        requires advanced NetWare version 2.10.0 or greater
  

• CHKVOL.EXE:

        The specific volume not found
  

• MAP or CAPTURE:

        Warning:  Unexpected error 4, error code 8801
  

        -or-
  

        Error: unexpected error 0x89ff during <API call name>
  

CAUSE

Your network redirector is not loaded.

RESOLUTION

To solve this problem, load the network redirector before you run the Netware program.

The redirector is automatically installed when you install GSNW or CSNW, but is not automatically loaded into memory. To load the network redirector automatically through your AUTOEXEC.NT file, which is in the %SystemRoot%\SYSTEM32 directory, follow the example of this AUTOEXEC.NT file:

@echo off break on REM AUTOEXEC.BAT is not used to initialize the MS-DOS environment. REM AUTOEXEC.NT is used to initialize the MS-DOS environment unless a REM different startup file is specified in an application's PIF.

REM Install CD ROM extensions lh %SystemRoot%\system32\mscdexnt.exe

REM Install network redirector (load before dosx.exe) lh %SystemRoot%\system32\redir

REM Install DPMI support lh %SystemRoot%\system32\dosx

REM Install network redirector lh %SystemRoot%\system32\nw16 lh %SystemRoot%\system32\vwipxspx