asp.net "network BIOS command limit has been reached" ASP.NET 2.0 + 3.5

Question

Hi,

I'm trying to run tinyMCE texteditor in ASP.NET 2.0 + 3.5 but I get the following error in my web.config file..

An error occurred loading a configuration file: Failed to start monitoring changes to '###\Visual Studio 2005\WebSites\TinyMCE\tinymce\jscripts\tiny_mce\langs' because the network BIOS command limit has been reached. For more information on this error, please refer to Microsoft knowledge base article 810886. Hosting on a UNC share is not supported for the Windows XP Platform.

Any ideas how to solve this?

Answer 1

Don't host the web on an UNC path, but keep a local copy.

Answer 2

Hi, I had this very same problem and the issue was in my web.config file. I had copied over someone elses while trying to get a custom control to work and they had been running on IIS 7, while I was still on IIS 6. The following are the offending lines:

<system.webServer>
  <validation validateIntegratedModeConfiguration="false"/>
  <modules>
    <remove name="ScriptModule" />
    <add name="ScriptModule" preCondition="managedHandler" type="System.Web.Handlers.ScriptModule, System.Web.Extensions, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral />
  </modules>
  <handlers>
    <remove name="WebServiceHandlerFactory-Integrated"/>
    <remove name="ScriptHandlerFactory" />
    <remove name="ScriptHandlerFactoryAppServices" />
    <remove name="ScriptResource" />
  </handlers>
</system.webServer>

Pretty much, just had to remove everything between the tag. Hope this helps!

Answer 3

I had this problem as well, ultimately the thing that fixed it was a hotfix that I got from our IT dept. See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/911272 for more info.

Looks like all it does is set the FCNMode registry key's value to 2. Have to restart once that's set of course.

Answer 4

I had the same error: Failed to start monitoring changes to ‘\xxx\yyy\zzz’ because the network BIOS command limit has been reached. For more information on this error, please refer to Microsoft knowledge base article 810886. Hosting on a UNC share is not supported for the Windows XP Platform.

At the time I had several windows of Visual Studio open. So, the simplest solution that worked for me was to close those Visual Studious and to leave open just the one I was working on.

Then the error disappeared.