PPT2000: Error Message: "Failed to Start NetShow ASF Session"

ID: Q224472

The information in this article applies to:

ERROR MESSAGE

When you begin an online broadcast, PowerPoint will verify the audio and video sources. When you click Start, you may receive the following error message:

Failed to start NetShow ASF session
NOTE: Microsoft Office 2000 has built-in functionality that allows you to get more information about difficult-to-troubleshoot alerts or error messages. If you want to enable this functionality for this and other error messages in Microsoft Office 2000, please download the Microsoft Office 2000 Customizable Alerts file from the Microsoft Office Update Web site at the following address:
http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/2000/downloadDetails/alerts.htm
NOTE: If you reached this article by clicking the Web Info button in an error message, you already have Customizable Alerts enabled.


CAUSE

Before you start the online broadcast, an Advanced Streaming Format session must be established with the NetShow server. If the NetShow server cannot fulfill this request, you will receive this error.


WHAT TO TRY

Make sure that the presenter is a member of both the Administrators group and the NetShow Administrators group on the NetShow server. Make sure that NetShow is configured and running properly on the NetShow server, and that the Presenter Machine can connect to these services. To do this, follow these steps:

  1. Make sure that the Sample.ASF in the <ASFROOT> directory on the NetShow server.


  2. On the Start menu of the presenter computer, click Run. In the Open box, type the following:

    mms://<servername>/sample.asf

    Click OK.


  3. The Microsoft Media player should play the Sample.ASF on the presenter computer. If it does not, contact your NetShow administrator or consult your NetShow documentation.


To test whether there is too much activity on the NetShow server, or whether there may be network connectivity problems between the NetShow server and the presenter computer, set up a new, online broadcast. Select one audience member and do not use a NetShow server. If this step works, then the network between the presenter computer and the NetShow server is not functioning properly, or the NetShow server is offline or configured incorrectly. In this case, contact your NetShow administrator or consult your NetShow documentation.

If the new, online broadcast involving only the presenter computer and one audience member does not work, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
Q229951 PPT2000: Troubleshooting Online Broadcasting


MORE INFORMATION

For more information on online broadcasting in PowerPoint, please see the following page on the Microsoft World Wide Web site:

Web Workshop - Presentation Broadcasting in PowerPoint 2000
For more information on using NetShow services with PowerPoint online broadcasting, please see the following page on the Microsoft Website:
Broadcasting PowerPoint Presentations over the Network
For more information on configuring NetShow server for use with Microsoft PowerPoint online broadcasting, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
Q229826 PPT2000: Overview of Online Broadcasting with NetShow
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Additional query words: OFF2000 


Keywords          : kberrmsg kbdta kbconf 
Version           : WINDOWS:2000
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbprb

Last Reviewed: August 9, 1999