SNA Server Logs Event 3 (1106) Node Configuration Error

ID: Q195116

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft SNA Server, versions 4.0, 4.0 SP1

SYMPTOMS

SNA Server unexpectedly logs the following event in the Windows NT application event log:

Event ID: 3
Source: SNA Server
Description: (1106) Node Configuration Error
Subcode Information
X'1106' Configuration file is corrupted.

When this occurs, the SNA Server service will end, and an Event ID 624 is logged, indicating that an SNADump.log has been created.

CAUSE

This problem can occur if an Advanced Program-to-Program Communications (APPC) or Common Programming Interface for Communications (CPIC) application attempts to allocate a conversation (by calling [MC_]ALLOCATE or CMALLC), and specifies an APPC mode name which is not configured in SNA Server.

RESOLUTION

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in SNA Server versions 4.0 and 4.0 Service Pack 1. This problem was corrected in the latest SNA Server version 4.0 U.S. Service Pack. For information on obtaining this 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:

Keywords :
Version : WINDOWS:4.0,4.0 SP1
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbbug