Possible Scenario: On Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 by default IGMPv3 is enabled. When you send a IGMP multicast packet after joining the multicast group using IP_ADD_SOURCE_MEMBERSHIP and setsockopt(), you see that IGMPv2 packet is going out of the...

Developing with mapped drives on Windows machines, you can often get the similar messages like subject of this article. What’s wrong? Even sometimes, you can see the mapped drive in explorer or using “net use”, but still your application can’t use...

Mapped drives can’t be created after Microsoft Security Update from code running under Network Service account MS09-012: Description of the security update for Windows Service Isolation: April 2009 ( KB 956572 ) Possible scenario: You are using...

Problem Observed: When an application on client creates a file on a shared directory on server or application on server creates a file on shared directory on server, and file is created successfully but when the application on client try to check the...

Small Intro.. Someone asked me about four and half years back in the initial days of my first job, What you will do in future? I told,”I will join Microsoft in 6 years”. Everyone laughed, but I was determined. I did it in 2 years, when I joined my...