PRB: Independent Clients Cannot Recieve Messages While Offline

ID: Q178926

The information in this article applies to:

SYMPTOMS

When attempting to receive messages sent to a public local queue on a independent client, all ActiveX clients stop responding while offline when invoking the "open" method.

NOTE: Eventually the network call times out and control is returned to the client application. At that point, it works as expected. This time out varies from two to ten minutes.

CAUSE

When the "open" method is invoked, the ActiveX object attempts to query the queue properties from the site controller, and not the local data store.

WORKAROUND

This problem has been fixed in the Windows NT Option Pack version of Microsoft Message Queue Server (MSMQ). You can resolve this problem by downloading this version and upgrading all independent clients to this version. You can find this version of MSMQ at: 

   http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/guide/whatisntop.asp
Although upgrading to the Windows NT Option Pack version of MSMQ is recommended, a workaround is to use private queues, because private queues do not suffer from this problem. Private queue information exists only on the local hard disk drive in the Msmq\Storage\Lqs directory, not on the site controller.

REFERENCES

For more information on using the MSMQ ActiveX objects, refer to the SDK online documentation.

Additional query words: active x hang hung freeze frozen lock locked up 

Keywords          : kbusage MQQueue 
Version           : WINNT:1.0
Platform          : winnt
Hardware          : ALPHA x86
Issue type        : kbprb
Solution Type     : kbfix

Last Reviewed: January 7, 1998