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CreateFile API with Delete-on-Close Option May Fail

Article ID: 154183

Article Last Modified on 11/1/2006

Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.51
Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.51

This article was previously published under Q154183

SYMPTOMS

Failure may occur when you use Lotus Approach 4.0 (or 3.0) and try to save a database file in Paradox or dBase file formats to an OS/2 LanServer or Windows 95 or Windows for Workgroups configured as the server. Lotus Approach returns the following error message:

Could not open filename because it is damaged.

CAUSE

When an application opens a file on remote downlevel server message block (SMB) servers using the Createfile API with FILE_FLAG_DELETE_ON_CLOSE flag set, the Windows NT redirector does not send a Delete File request to the server when the application closes the file.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Windows NT version 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

Keywords: kbinterop KB154183