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SMS: "Could Not Spawn Initmain.exe" Error Message

Article ID: 165183

Article Last Modified on 10/27/2006

Microsoft Systems Management Server 1.2 Standard Edition

This article was previously published under Q165183

SUMMARY

Systems Management Server clients may encounter the following error message during the execution of the Smsls.bat file:

Could Not Spawn Initmain.exe

This error message may occur when inventorying a computer by means of a logon script, and the computer is low on executable memory (possibly because Emm386 is not loaded).

Additional query words: prodsms initmain

Keywords: kberrmsg kbinventory kbnetwork kbsetup KB165183