SMS: Inventory May Stop Responding on Windows 3.1 LanMan Client

ID: Q191298

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Systems Management Server version 1.2

SYMPTOMS

When running Smsls.bat for a LANMAN client by using a logon script, you may see the following errors before the client restarts:

Run-time error R6000 stack overflow

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Run-time error R6001 null pointer assignment

If you set the client to run in verbose mode, by configuring the environment variable 'set smsls=1', and then run Runsms.bat, you will see the client stop responding at:

'c:\ms\sms\bin\ipconfig.exe > c:\ms\sms\temp\ipconfig.sms". Ipconfig.sms contains "error: this program must be run from within Windows'

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Systems Management Server version 1.2. This problem has been corrected in the latest U.S. service pack for Systems Management Server version 1.2. For information on obtaining the service pack, query on the following word in the Microsoft Knowledge Base (without the spaces):

S E R V P A C K

Additional query words: prodsms SP SP4 hang hangs hung

Keywords : smsinv kbfix1.20.sp4 kbbug1.20
Version : winnt:1.2
Platform : winnt
Issue type : kbbug