DOCUMENT:Q173617 13-JUN-2001 [sna] TITLE :Print Server Application Exception in Function AimOpenPrinter PRODUCT :Microsoft SNA Server PROD/VER:WINDOWS:3.0,3.0 SP1 OPER/SYS: KEYWORDS:kbnetwork ====================================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The information in this article applies to: - Microsoft SNA Server, versions 3.0, 3.0 SP1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SYMPTOMS ======== The SNA Server Host Print service may generated an application exception when attempting to start a configured print session in SNA Server Manager. An error similar to the following will be logged in the Windows NT Application Event Log when the application exception occurs: Event ID: 4097 Source: DrWatson Description: The application, exe\snaprint.dbg, generated an application error. The error occurred on <date> @ <time>. The exception generated was c0000005 at address 01002308 (AIMOpenPrinter). In addition, a Drwtsn32.log file will be generated in the Windows NT directory. The Drwtsn32.log will contain information similar to the following: Application exception occurred: App: exe\snaprint.DBG (pid=<process id #>) When: <date> @ <time> Exception number: c0000005 (access violation) CAUSE ===== When starting a print session, the Print Server attempts to open a connection to the configured printer by issuing a StartDoc() call. If the StartDoc() call fails, the print server was not properly setting all related pointers to NULL, causing the application exception to occur. In a reported occurrence of this problem, the StartDoc() call failed because the print server was not able to connect to the TCP/IP address of the remote printer that the print session was configured to use. There may be other reasons that StartDoc() fails that result in the same application exception. RESOLUTION ========== The SNA Server Print service has been updated to correctly free all allocated memory and to reset all related pointers if the StartDoc() fails. STATUS ====== Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in SNA Server versions 3.0 and 3.0 Service Pack 1 (SP1). This problem was corrected in the latest SNA Server version 3.0 U.S. Service Pack. For information on obtaining this Service Pack, query on the following word in the Microsoft Knowledge Base (without the spaces): S E R V P A C K MORE INFORMATION ================ The Drwtsn32.log file will contain information similar to the following: Application exception occurred: App: exe\snaprint.DBG (pid=<process id #>) When: <date> @ <time> Exception number: c0000005 (access violation) function: AIMOpenPrinter 01002195 53 push ebx 01002196 68c0a70001 push 0x100a7c0 0100219b 6a00 push 0x0 0100219d e82e080000 call PreAsyncTrace (010029d0) 010021a2 83c410 add esp,0x10 010021a5 8bcb mov ecx,ebx 010021a7 a13ce00001 mov eax,[PPDSessions (0100e03c)] ds:0100e03c=00160b38 010021ac 8b443804 mov eax,[eax+edi+0x4] ds:00f0fa6b=???????? 010021b0 8b10 mov edx,[eax] ds:0dfafe53=00000000 010021b2 8a01 mov al,[ecx] ds:0e014d28=53 FAULT ->010021b4 3a02 cmp al,[edx] ds:00000000=?? 010021b6 751a jnz AIMOpenPrinter+0xdf2 (010021d2) 010021b8 0ac0 or al,al 010021ba 7412 jz AIMOpenPrinter+0xdee (010021ce) 010021bc 8a4101 mov al,[ecx+0x1] ds:0ef2372e=?? 010021bf 3a4201 cmp al,[edx+0x1] ds:00f0ea06=?? 010021c2 750e jnz AIMOpenPrinter+0xdf2 (010021d2) 010021c4 83c102 add ecx,0x2 010021c7 83c202 add edx,0x2 010021ca 0ac0 or al,al 010021cc 75e4 jnz AIMOpenPrinter+0xdd2 (010021b2) 010021ce 33c0 xor eax,eax *----> Stack Back Trace <----* FramePtr ReturnAd Param#1 Param#2 Param#3 Param#4 Function Name 01b5ff5c 01004af7 01b5ff84 00000000 00000000 0c7b9a00 snaprint!AIMOpenPrinter (FPO: [EBP 0x01b5ffec] [4,146,4]) 01b5ffa0 01006ca6 00146f98 77dd8f8c 00000001 00146fa0 snaprint!AIMRunScheduler (FPO: [EBP 0x01b5ffec] [0,8,4]) 01b5ffa8 77dd8f8c 00000001 00146fa0 00140548 77f04f32 snaprint!SIMMainEntryPoint (FPO: [2,0,1]) 01b5ffec 00000000 77dd8f7e 00146f98 00000000 52485324 advapi32!RegisterServiceCtrlHandlerA 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 snaprint!<nosymbols> Additional query words: trap ====================================================================== Keywords : kbnetwork Technology : kbAudDeveloper kbSNAServSearch kbSNAServ300 kbSNAServ300SP1 Version : WINDOWS:3.0,3.0 SP1 Issue type : kbbug Solution Type : kbfix ============================================================================= THE INFORMATION PROVIDED IN THE MICROSOFT KNOWLEDGE BASE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. 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