Hello all! Just a quick announcement. As it has been reported recently also on this mailing list, there is an issue with Service Pack 6 for NT: it causes some Winsock apps to not operate correctly unless the user is given local Admin rights. One of the most prominent programs affected was Lotus Notes. As of yesterday, there is a hotfix from Microsoft available from: http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q245/6/78.asp http://download.microsoft.com/download/winntsp/Patch/afd.sys/NT4/EN-US/ It replaces the file afd.sys (Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock) with a new version, which according to Microsoft should fix this problem. No further explanation of the problem is provided by the company. Credit goes to the German IT magazine c't (http://www.heise.de/ct/) who were one of the first to discover and report this bug on November 12th and also reported about the fix today. See http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/jk-17.11.99-004/ for full story in German. Cheers: Szilveszter ADAM ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Adam Szilveszter * JATE Szeged * email: szisziat_private-szeged.hu * * Homepage : none * alternate email: ccat_private * * Finger szisziat_private-szeged.hu for PGP key. * * I prefer using the door instead of Windows(tm)... *
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b30 : Fri Apr 13 2001 - 15:12:57 PDT