PRB: Lost LAN Manager Network and Printer Connections

• Microsoft FoxPro for MS-DOS, versions 2.0, 2.5, 2.5a, 2.5b, 2.6
• Microsoft FoxPro for Windows, versions 2.5, 2.5a, 2.5b, 2.6

SYMPTOMS

When you are running on a Microsoft LAN Manager network, your network and printer connections will occasionally be lost. You may receive some of the following error messages:

File Not Found

File Does Not Exist

Cannot Create File

Use of Transgressed Handle

Invalid File Handle

RESOLUTION

To work around this problem, do the following:

1. Increase the "chartime" setting in the workstation's LANMAN.INI file.



2. Load SMARTDRV in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file.



3. Set the "sesstimeout" setting in the workstation's LANMAN.INI file to 127.



4. Set the fifteenth "srvheuristics" parameter in the workstation's LANMAN.INI file to 9 (no time-out).

MORE INFORMATION

For additional information, please see the following article(s) in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q106354 ERR: "File ["<File>"] Does Not Exist" Printing on LAN Manager

Q98849 Adjust Parameters to Connect to LAN Man Over Slow Link

Q80077 LAN Manager 2.1 Server Autotuning (Part 1)

Additional query words: FoxDos FoxWin Lanman errmsg err msg

Keywords          : kberrmsg FxnetworkGeneral 
Version           : 2.00 2.50 2.50a 2.50b 2.60 | 2.5
Platform          : MS-DOS WINDOWS 
Issue type        :