Error: "An Extended Error Has Occurred" on Windows 95 Client

Last reviewed: September 19, 1997
Article ID: Q150054

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Windows NT Server version 3.51 and 4.0
Microsoft Windows 95

SYMPTOMS

When a Windows 95 client tries to connect to a share on a Windows NT 3.51 Server, the following error message appears:

   An extended error has occurred.

Administrators are able to get connected; nonadministrators cannot.

CAUSE

One possible cause of this error is that License Manager has not been set up to grant enough connections to meet the clients' demands.

RESOLUTION

Go into Control Panel, click the Licensing icon, and set up License Manager with the appropriate number of client licenses per seat or per server.

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

   Article-ID: Q130632
   TITLE     : How to Determine Current Licensing Mode (Per Seat or Per
               Server)

Additional query words: 3.51 95 win95 4.00
Keywords : nthowto ntlicense kbinterop kbinterop
Version : 3.51 95
Platform : WINDOWS

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Last reviewed: September 19, 1997
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