BOLVERK – Tim's Lousy Blog

I’ve suddenly started having an issue with a couple of shares on a Windows XP Pro machine and being able to mount them with the Mac. I’ve been actively using these shares for well over a year in exactly the same fashion and it just kind of stopped, I have no idea if there’s any action performed that would have caused this.

Basically, what I got from my Mac when I attempted to mount one of these problematic share is a “connecting to server sorry the operation could not be completed because an unexpected error occurred (error code -41)”. When attempting to mount the share via command line the process hung. In searching I found the following error on my XP machine Event Logs.

Product: Windows Operating System
Event ID: 2011
Source: Srv
Version: 5.2
Symbolic Name: EVENT_SRV_IRP_STACK_SIZE
Message: The server’s configuration parameter “irpstacksize” is too small for the server to use a local device. Please increase the value of this parameter.

The times seemed to match my mount attempts. Recall that this only occured on some of my shares, two out of 10+ on the machine. Further research gave the following from Microsoft.

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I absolutely hate Microsofts Just-In-Time debugging.

I’m rebuilding some servers for the company I’m leaving in less than two weeks. One of the machines is going to running both SQL Server 2005 and ColdFusion. For some damed reason the Just-In-Time debugger that installs without permissions as a component of Visual Studio 2005 believe that the CF installer is throwing an exception and refuses to let the installer continue. In the spirit of documenting stuff the following registry keys had to be removed to disable the debugging.

*HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\AeDebug\Debugger
*HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft.NET\Framework\DbgManaged\Debugger

Now I never have to see that dialog box again for stuff that will continue to work when it’s handling it’s own exceptions…

I’ll say it again, Fucking Microsoft.