I just sent an email to microsoft about this issue but i
get the feeling they will not answer.
Ever heard of thius patch? Q828035 which patches
messenger service?
Ever since i upplied it, it caused all my xp machines to
have a very unstable messenger service.
At first it seemed random. Somtimes i receive net send
messeges fine, other time i get "message alias could not
be found on the network etc.."
So lets say i'm trying to send a message form a ADOLPH to
SONY.
from adolph: net send sony hello
This doesn't work even though i can ping sony with no
problem. On sony, i make sure the messenger service is
running.
To be able to receive messeges on sony i have to:
net stop messenger
net start messenger
now, i can reveice net send messeges on sony.
Okay, i just found out what triggered it. Sony is the
computer which i'm having the most problem with after
this patch. It's a laptop on DHCP. Adolph rarely gets
this problem. It's a desktop on static IP.
I can easly duplicate this messenger faliur on sony by:
ipconfig /release
ipconfig /renew
After i do this, i cannot receive net send messeges. Look
at this:
nbtstat -n
NetBIOS Local Name Table
Name Type Status
---------------------------------------------
SONY <00> UNIQUE Registered
SONY <20> UNIQUE Registered
HOME <00> GROUP Registered
HOME <1E> GROUP Registered
Notice no entries like SONY <03> etc....
The <03> shows that the messenger service is attached to
that name.
(in this case i can also try "net name hellothere" and it
says successfull, but it doesn't show up on nbtstat -n)
Now, to fix: retsart messenger and then:
nbtstat -n
Node IpAddress: [192.168.0.15] Scope Id: []
NetBIOS Local Name Table
Name Type Status
---------------------------------------------
SONY <00> UNIQUE Registered
SONY <20> UNIQUE Registered
HOME <00> GROUP Registered
HOME <1E> GROUP Registered
SONY <03> UNIQUE Registered
SONY$ <03> UNIQUE Registered
NOAMKRIEF <03> UNIQUE Registered
Notice all the <03>. Now the messenger service works.
I can duplicate this problem on the desktop too when i
swicth it to dhcp.
Can someone give me some input?
would someone try this on their "XP HOME" machine?
PS - uninstalling that patch does not fix the problem
thanks
Noam
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