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Before I rip into this speech, jmckone@excalibur-group says that you
only have to install DUN 1.3 to fix this hanging RNAAPP bug.
A Message from William Hunt (E-MAIL address unknown) says that
sometimes the computer hangs with "RNAAPP (Not Responding)" when you
press CTRL-ALT-DEL to bring up the task list. His fix was to hide the
file named VNBT.386 which is not needed for an Internet session.
Well this is correct; VNBT is a virtual device for NetBIOS over
TCP/IP, not needed for connecting to The Internet and using Winsock
apps. You will need this file back, however, if you run Client for MS
networks over TCP/IP or otherwise want to use NetBIOS apps over it. It
also appears, according to Eric Mitchell, that deleting VNBT.386
doesn't work.
A better solution, which would prevent this VxD from being invoked, is
to set "Disable DNS" and "Disable WINS Resolution" in TCP/IP
properties, and specify the DNS address in the dial-up connection's
properties directly. However, this bug seems to still creep up. One
thing I've noticed is this bug never seems to happen to me. At least
not anymore. So I figure I'm doing something different... here's what
I do when I set up a connection on a Win95 machine in order to prevent
this bug:
1. Remove any traces of non-standard comm drivers, TCP/IP stacks, etc
that aren't designed for Win95
2. Remove and re-install Dial-up Networking from Add/Remove Programs
/ Windows Setup (to replace the related files). Add TCP/IP.
3. Remove any unneeded protocols, clients, etc, and disable any
Client or Service bindings to TCP/IP not needed (such as Client
for MS Networks)
4. Disable WINS resolution and set "Disable DNS". Finally, OK
everything without re-starting.
5. Install Service Pack 1 and the KERNEL32 update, and any
other update related to the software you use (Netscape users
should get the OLE2 update as well, because I believe it uses OLE)
and re-boot
6. When you make your dial-up connection, specify the name servers
yourself, and turn off all server type options EXCEPT TCP/IP.
I don't know why, but doing the connection up this way seems to
prevent this RNAAPP lockup.
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