NT HACKS - Samba Client

STOP Message: After "DIR ..\" is Issued from a Samba Client

Article ID: Q140818
Creation Date: 18-DEC-1995
Revision Date: 15-MAR-1996

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Windows NT Workstation versions 3.5 and 3.51
Microsoft Windows NT Server versions 3.5 and 3.51

SYMPTOMS

After a "DIR ..\" command is sent to a Windows NT version 3.5 or 3.51 computer from a Samba (public domain SMB) client, a STOP Message (blue screen) appears on the Windows NT computer with various error codes, including:

   STOP Message 0x0000001E



   -or-



   STOP Message 0x0000001A



   -or-



   STOP Message 0x00000019



  CAUSE

This problem is caused by heap corruption in SRV.SYS. The server code contains an error, freeing a unicode string twice.

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