Role of symbols in windebugging?

[Guest]

Hello

I am facing problem when debugging my application using windbg,the error
shown by debugger is as
*** ERROR:Symbol file could not be found. Defaulted to export symbols for
drmk.sys
and similar problem for many more files..
After going through lot many articles from various sites I am unable to
recognise the same,

I am doing remote debugging using Null Modem.

Kindly provide some assistance
Ravi

 

[Guest]

An exe file can be compiled with the instruction to include debug symbols.
This implies, of course, that you own the rights to the source code for the
compiled object. Since you lack access to the windows source code for XP, and
do not have the compiled objects that have the source code symbols built in,
and you do not get the resulting debug info. Developers for Windows get a
version of Windows made available to them for this use. It's called an MSDN
subscription. (a few thousand a year) http://msdn.microsoft.com