Falcon 5250 Emulator May GP Fault While Opening Second Session
Article ID: 160883
Article Last Modified on 11/4/2003
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft SNA Server 2.11 Service Pack 1
- Microsoft SNA Server 3.0 Service Pack 4
This article was previously published under Q160883
SYMPTOMS
When opening a second 5250 session with the Falcon 5250 emulator, the
following error message may appear:
A General Protection fault occurred at 000B:21A8 in the following
module:
WDMOD.DLL.
CAUSE
The LU resource location optimization introduced into the SNA Server 2.11
Service Pack 1 (SP1) win3.x client caused this to occur. This optimization
will be present in all future releases of SNA Server as well.
RESOLUTION
To work around this problem, do one of the following:
- Install the SNA Server 2.11 client in place of
the SNA Server 2.11 SP1 client.
-or-
- Apply the SNA Server 2.11 Windows 3.x hotfix, or upgrade the Windows 3.x
client to SNA Server 3.0, and add the following entry in the [wnap]
section of the win.ini:
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in SNA Server version 2.11
Service Pack 1 (SP1) and in version 3.0. This problem was corrected in the latest Microsoft SNA Server version 2.11 and 3.0 U.S. Service Packs. For information on obtaining these service packs, query on the following word in the Microsoft Knowledge Base (without the spaces):
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