SNA Server Unable to Reconnect to Distributed Link Service

• Microsoft SNA Server, version 2.11 SP1

SYMPTOMS

SNA Server 2.11 Service Pack 1 allows a SNA Server to communicate through an SNA Server link service residing on a different server (referred to as the Distributed Link Service feature). However, SNA Server will be unable to reopen a connection through the "distributed" link service under the following conditions:

• If the LAN session between the SNA Server and the "remoted" link service is lost.



• If the computer running SNA Server is powered off without gracefully shutting down the server.

CAUSE

The SNA Server link service interface (SNALINK.DLL) was not passing "lost locality" messages to the link service. This caused the link service to fail to end, and to fail to accept a new connection from an SNA Server.

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):

S E R V P A C K

Additional query words: sp1 prodsna

Keywords : kbnetwork kbbug2.11.sp1 kbfix2.11.sp2 snadls
Version : WINDOWS:2.11 SP1
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type :