SMS: Logon Servers Are Not Receiving Updates (200769)

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Systems Management Server 1.2

This article was previously published under Q200769

SYMPTOMS

After applying Systems Management Server 1.2 Service Pack 3, a site may experience problems with logon servers running Windows NT 4.0 that are being enumerated by site servers running Windows NT 3.51 Service Pack 5. The problem is that the Systems Management Server logon servers are not being updated.

CAUSE

The problem is caused by the way that Windows NT Server 3.51 queries the disk space on servers running Windows NT Server 4.0.

WORKAROUND

To work around this problem, contact Microsoft Product Support Services to obtain a hotfix. For additional information on the hotfix, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

167871 Error When Connecting to a Share on WinNT 4.0 NTFS Partition

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Systems Management Server version 1.2 and Windows NT Server 3.51.

MORE INFORMATION

When this problem occurs, the Maintman.log shows the following information:

   ~Working on logon server <logonserver>
   $$<SMS_MAINTENANCE_MANAGER><Fri Feb 06 10:43:33
   1998~><thread=12D> ~Free disk space check failed (error 144),    
   skipping... $$<SMS_MAINTENANCE_MANAGER><Fri Feb 06 10:43:33    
   1998~><thread=12D> ~Working on logon server <logonserver>
   $$<SMS_MAINTENANCE_MANAGER><Fri Feb 06 10:43:33
   1998~><thread=12D> ~Free disk space check failed (error 144), 
   skipping... $$<SMS_MAINTENANCE_MANAGER><Fri Feb

However, the server has over 1 GB of disk space available.

Modification Type:	Minor	Last Reviewed:	6/14/2005
Keywords:	kbBug kbinterop KB200769