STOP Message: After "DIR ..\" is Issued from a Samba Client

• Microsoft Windows NT Workstation versions 3.5, 3.51
• Microsoft Windows NT Server versions 3.5, 3.51

SYMPTOMS

After a "DIR ..\" command is sent to a Windows NT version 3.5 or 3.51 computer from a Samba (a public domain Server Message Block (SMB) client, a STOP Message (blue screen) appears on the Windows NT computer with various error codes, including:

STOP Message 0x0000001E

-or-

STOP Message 0x0000001A

-or-

STOP Message 0x00000019

CAUSE

This problem is caused by heap corruption in SRV.SYS. The server code contains an error, freeing a unicode string twice.

RESOLUTION

This problem has been corrected in the latest Service Pack for Windows NT version 3.51.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Windows NT versions 3.5 and 3.51. This problem was corrected in the latest Windows NT 3.51 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: prodnt 3.51

Keywords :
Version : 3.50 3.51
Platform : WINDOWS
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