No Documents Appear in the File Open Dialog Box

ID: Q143282

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Windows 95

SYMPTOMS

When you try to open a document on a Novell NetWare server, no documents may appear in the File Open dialog box in the program you are using.

CAUSE

If a 16-bit program uses the File Open dialog box from the Windows 95 version of the Commdlg.dll file, the program cannot view documents in a folder on a NetWare server if the folder has a long directory name. For example, a 16-bit program may not be able to view documents in a folder named "LongDirectoryName" on a NetWare server.

RESOLUTION

To access the documents, use one of the following methods:

Change the name of the folder on the NetWare server so that it does not have a long directory name.

View the documents using My Computer or Windows Explorer. Double- click the file you want to open.

If possible, upgrade your 16-bit program to a 32-bit version.

This issue is resolved by the following updated file for Windows 95, and later versions of this file:

For the Bindery (non-NDS) version of the Microsoft Client for NetWare Networks:
```
      NWREDIR.VXD  version 4.00.955  dated 6/26/96  123,987 bytes 
```

For the NDS version of the Microsoft Client for NetWare Networks (Microsoft Service for NetWare Directory Services):
```
      NWREDIR.VXD  version 4.00.969  dated 7/30/96  174,618 bytes 
```

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Windows 95. An update to address this problem is now available, but is not fully regression tested and should be applied only to computers experiencing this specific problem. Unless you are severely impacted by this specific problem, Microsoft does not recommend implementing this update at this time. Contact Microsoft Technical Support for additional information about the availability of this update.

This issue is resolved in Microsoft Windows 98.

MORE INFORMATION

The following programs exhibit the behavior described in this article:

Lotus Notes (16-bit version)

Microsoft Access version 2.0

Microsoft Notepad (16-bit versions)

Microsoft Project version 4.0

Note that Microsoft Word version 6.0 for Windows and Microsoft Excel version 5.0 for Windows do not exhibit this behavior because they do not use the Windows 95 version of the Commdlg.dll file.

For additional information about issues resolved by updates to this component, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q177222 NetWare Printers or Volumes Unavailable in Windows 95

Q165402 Windows 95 Update to Encrypt Passwords in Memory

Q163673 "Exception 0E" Using MSNDS Over Dial-Up Connection

Q160897 NWRedir Reports Incorrect Free Space If Limited by Admin

Q160824 MSNDS Drops Connections to More Than Eight Servers

Q158058 MSNDS Client Does Not Prompt to Log On

Q153470 Incorrect Error Code Returned for Locked Files

Q152186 Possible Network Data Corruption If Locking Not Used

Q151912 NWRedir Returns Cached File Size Information

Q149606 Fatal Exception 0E in VNETBIOS Using NetWare Login Script

Q147838Cannot Access Folders with Long File Names on NetWare Servers

Q139747 MS-DOS-Based Program Reports Not Enough NetWare Server Space

Q136303 Connecting to Schedule+ 1.0 Calendar File Drops Connections

Q132786Known Issues with MS Print Agent for NetWare (MSPSRV)

For additional information about Windows 95 updates, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q161020 Implementing Windows 95 Updates

Additional query words: nwredir nwredir.vxd

Keywords : kb3rdparty kbnetwork win95 appscomp
Version : 95
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbprb