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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November 16th, being the third Thursday of November, is the release of the Nouveau wines! Google Beaujolais Nouveau, find and event, celebrate and enjoy. The beauty of the Nouveau events is that this wine is truely meant to be, well, let me quote a gal I met who runs a winery…she says that “…the Nouveau is meant to drank and enjoyed, not over intellectualized.”

I’m just too damned excited. I’m going to the Installation and Configuration course for ESX 3 in Columbus, OH next month! When I pass the exams afterwards I’ll be the one and only VCP in my company.

Today, life is good.

On a not so related note, I published the iFolder VM I made on VMware’s site yesterday and my traffic increased to 52 Gig yesterday. 52 Gig would make it about 52 Gig more then my average.