SNA Server Windows 95 Client Fails over 16-Bit Sockets

Last reviewed: April 17, 1997
Article ID: Q155441

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft SNA Server for Windows NT, versions 2.0, 2.1, 2.11, 2.11 Service Pack 1, and 3.0

SYMPTOMS

When you initialize the Microsoft Windows 95 SNA Server client on a Windows 95 computer running a 16-bit sockets interface, SnaBase returns the following error message:

   SnaBase
   SNA Server transport DLL initialization failed.
   Do you want to run the SNA Client configuration program?

CAUSE

The Windows 95 SNA Server client is a 32-bit application and it requires a 32-bit Winsock interface.

WORKAROUND

The following are two known solutions for this problem:

Install a 32-bit sockets interface on the Windows 95 computer.
Use the 16-Bit (Windows 3.x) SNA Server client on the Windows 95 computer.

Additional query words: prodsna tcp/ip ipx spx vines banyan
Keywords : kbnetwork snasetup snawin95
Version : 2.0 2.1 2.11 2.11.sp1 3.0
Platform : NT WINDOWS
Issue type : kbprb

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Last reviewed: April 17, 1997
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