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Error Opening File on SMS Client During Inventory

Article ID: 137989

Article Last Modified on 10/27/2006

APPLIES TO

This article was previously published under Q137989

SYMPTOMS

When you run RUNSMS.BAT on the Systems Management Server from a client computer to execute the inventory agent, the following error message appears in the MS-DOS Command Prompt window and returns a DOS prompt:
Error Opening File
On the site server, a .TMP extension file is created in the following directory:

SMS\LOGON.SRV\INVENTRY.BOX

CAUSE

This is caused by collecting more than two files.

WORKAROUND

To work around this problem:

  • Continue the inventory process, rename the .TMP extension file on the Systems Management Server with the .RAW extension.

    -or-
  • Disable the collected files portion of the inventory.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Systems Management Server version 1.0 and 1.1. This problem has been corrected in Systems Management Server version 1.2.

Additional query words: prodsms sms writing

Keywords: kbinventory kbother KB137989


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