WTF? SVRNETCN.dll => ...80\tool\binn instead of ...\80\toolS\binn

microsoft.public.sqlserver.tools

19 Jan 2006 4:36 PM

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Ok, can someone explain WTF happened to my SQL Server today?

Our company has 1 licensed SQL Server, which is currently being used on our
internal sharepoint site. It was an upgrade from MSDE to enable full-text,
so the instance name is SHAREPOINT...not that I believe that matters.

Having been asked to evaluate a help-desk package with a SQL Server
back-end, I installed it to our server. I couldn't get it to connect,
(because I forgot about the SHAREPOINT instance name) so I immediately
uninstalled the package.

Next, I opened OSQL to make sure the database it created got dropped
properly... Well
OSQL -S (local)\SHAREPOINT -E would not connect. Not only that, our portal
site was down.

I tried running SVRNETCN.exe to check on connectivity, and maybe try another
protocol...and I kept getting a module not found error.

I installed SP4 in the hope it would patch up whatever'd gone wrong... no
luck there...

Finally, I got out Depends.exe, and figured out that it couldn't load
SVRNETCN.DLL

Here's the deal...

I was running: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL
Server\80\Tools\Binn\SVRNETCN.exe"
but it was looking to load "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL
Server\80\Tool\Binn\SVRNETCN.dll"

(for the tired eyes, the S in TOOLS is missing)

I was able to get everything running again by creating a copy of the Tools
folder called Tool

But what happened? What's the real fix?