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thank you SO MUCH. i’ve been having this problem with connecting my macbook to my pc for a massive backup and this is the first definitive solution. THANK YOU!

I applied these setting and so far i haven’t had a freeze on large number of file transfer.
Good Job Thanks.

in first, i’m french so sorry for my poor english
So Yes, thanks from me too…
Same problem for me with RC and RTM version. I tested with size=2 instead of size=3 but problem reappared recently next to lot of data transfered.
in fact normaly, size=2 should be good but in real world, it does not work !

then i replaced yesterday size=2 by size=3 and i’ll see within next few days how it works
so SeeU
Kerv.

Many thanks!

What alive saver.

This modification allowed my XP clients to see the Windows 7 shared folders. On the XP client, the error was “the specified server cannot perform the requested operation” when trying to map the drive. XP had no Event Viewer items logged. The Windows 7 machine had the srv 2017 error in Event Viewer, but nothing on the screen when the XP client attempted to map. I made the registry changes here, rebooted the Windows 7 machine only, walked over to the XP client and it mapped immediately. Thanks!

Awesome! Pretty much exactly what I was doing. I found windows 7 64 bit doesnt support my ext2 driver, so I had to run a vmware fedora inside windows, passthru my usbdisks with ext2 partitinos to fedora and from there rsync them back onto windows.
Didnt work until I found this article.
What a pile of doggypoop windoze can be.
Wish you could solve my ext2 on windoze 7 problem though

Thanks so much for posting! This was driving me nuts before I found this solution.

Many thanks. Changing the size=1 to size=3 parameter completely solved my file share issues with Vista x64 SP2.

My Windows 7 x64 client was giving “Not enough server storage is available to process this command”. This was despite disabling SMB2 which seemed to solve the problem for XP clients. However I’ve now re-enabled SMB2 and everything works. size=3 is the only fix that is required. This fixes the underlying issue – event 2017, “server is unable to allocate from the system non-paged pool since it has reached it’s configured limit”.

Increasing IRPStackSize to 50 (maximum) had no impact, it just delayed the inevitable.

I applied the size=3 key last month and so far have not had any issues despite connections from about a dozen machines every day and no reboots for 4 weeks. This is not a work-around – it’s the real fix
Thanks for sharing!

Thanks from me too.
Amazing I did not find this after a search for the sharing problem.
My XP machines also got kicked out of de win7 shares.

Glad I still found it.

Seems to have fixed my problems to thanks!

Worked for me too man. Thanks.

Thanks very much for posting this. The problem didn’t crop up until I got a gigabit router in place, but once i did I started seeing this. Thought it was mobo/bad RAM initially, so this page really saved me some hassle. <3

Yes, It really works for windows 7 64 bits file sharing with winXP.
Thanks a lot!

+1 Thanks, I’ve been having this trouble since a Samba update a few weeks ago. This is a brilliant piece of interweb advice.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Posted this tip to Apple Discussions:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2139000&start=0&tstart=0

… where for a long, long time, Mac OS 10 users have had troubles, not only connecting from the Mac to Windows Vista and Windows 7 machines (getting an “Error code -36), but also copying files (“Error code -41″).

While copying attempts at the Mac command line would result in an error message: “cannot allocate memory”.

I love the internet, and contributions like this one. Was the solution for the strange and in intermittent problem I had with Windows 7 clients. Thanks a lot!

I’m replacing a Sun Solaris 10(x86) box that I used for all backups from other machines on the LAN to Vista 64 (w/Adaptec 51245 w/24TB). This 2017 error was a major frustration. The above mods worked perfectly up to this point. I currently have four machines backing up to this box at the moment.

you made my day

See here whats happening with wireshark:

10.0.0.200 is the Windows 7 machine. 10.0.0.253 is the iMac.

No. Time Source Destination Protocol Info
23 6.200303 10.0.0.200 10.0.0.253 SMB Negotiate Protocol Response, Error: Out of memory

Frame 23 (105 bytes on wire, 105 bytes captured)
Ethernet II, Src: 02:23:54:80:b4:22 (02:23:54:80:b4:22), Dst: Apple_f2:be:60 (d4:9a:20:f2:be:60)
Internet Protocol, Src: 10.0.0.200 (10.0.0.200), Dst: 10.0.0.253 (10.0.0.253)
Transmission Control Protocol, Src Port: microsoft-ds (445), Dst Port: 49177 (49177), Seq: 1, Ack: 52, Len: 39
NetBIOS Session Service
SMB (Server Message Block Protocol)
SMB Header
Negotiate Protocol Response (0×72)

Thank you so much for documenting this fix. It has solved my network share issue (XP machines to a 7 server. Thanks!

I rarely comment on anything like this, but you literally just solved a 6 month problem for me. MUCH THANKS!!! /beer

This is great, you are doing microsoft’s job for them.
I had this problem for a while and i couldn’t find related article on the microsoft website.
Good Job !

Built a new Win 7 64bit system and I have been getting several event log saying “The server was unable to allocate from the system nonpaged pool because the server reached the configured limit for nonpaged pool allocations.” I just entered the info in the regedit. I have been looking for a fix for 2 weeks now. Thanks I will let you know. Take care

Worked!

My configuration:
Windows 7 64-bit as a host and multiple VMWare workstation clients. The clients lost the share drives with the error “Not enough server storage is available to process this command.”

This fixed it. By the way, the first key did not exist, so I added it.

It’s working thank you!

I have the same problem but am lost as to how to fix it. When I open regedit, I have nothing that says HKLM, I only see HKEY. How exactly do I edit it, if its not there?

Alan,

You rock bro. I have been running for a couple of days now without any issues. Thanks for sharing this fix with everyone. Take care!

Worked for me in connecting an XP VM to folders on the host, when running Workstation 7.0.1

This was causing lots of compilion problems when using make in cygwin on the VM with make not being able to stat files

Thanks for the info

Alec

This solved the problem on my 2 Win7 64bit systems that I use as file servers.

Exactly the prescription! Thanks Doctor!

Great tip! Ran into the same issues as you did (mounting shares from a lot of other computers, including non-Windows systems). This fixes up the problem, and I’ve bookmarked you to ensure it’s among the tweaks I make on all new Windows 7 builds. Thanks.

thanks guys, fixed an issue ive been having for ages!

Awesome! Thanks for the info I was trying to work out why my linux system was refusing to connect to my Windows 7 FileServer.

Thanks for the info!

Amazing ! thank you so much… I built a file server win 7 Pro 64bit and was having the same issues with mac clients… fix in place and testing have been 100% so far.
Excellent work for sharing this fix.

Thanks for the TIP !!!

Thanks my friend , I will be with same problem ,follow in his footsteps and solve my problem .
bye

Naylor

Hi,

I had the same problem but following your instructions hasn’t seemed to fix my problem.

Any other ideas?

I can be reached at eterspam@gmail.com

Thanks

Hi, I’ve a very similar problem. In my case the samba server is a linux box and my windows xp is the client. When I try to copy big files (with few bytes works fine) I receive the same memory error. In this case your trick doesn’t work because the problem I suppose in on the server side but there are no Registry on linux
Any suggestions? Thanks

Mad props.

Today we’ve faced this problem in one of the removed offices of the client on Windows 7 Ultimate (fully updated).

Thank you! :beer:

Thanks. This totally fixed my problem…

Good stuff!

Hi, just wanted to say thank you as well. I am using windows 7 professional as a media server and to serve to a popcorn hour and western digital media player. Things were fine until I added the western digital media player, then I started to get the ‘no content available’ on both devices. It’s only been about 48 hours but I don’t see the error listed in th event viewer since I made the changes.

Thanks a ton!

You rock! I had issues with my Dune media player seeing W7 SMB shares. Then I noticed the errors in my event log and a few google searches lead me to your solution. Thanks again!!

THANK YOU THANK YOU!!! Windows 7 home being used at work (Workgroup) as a file sharing server was giving this error non-stop in the event viewer. Certain computers would give the error: “not enough server storage is available to process this command” and not connect to the shared drives.

Thanks to Google, I found this hack, and haven’t had an error since. You are a saint!

I believe I am having this same issue but my registry does not have these items in it:
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management\LargeSystemCache
and
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters\Size
being somewhat a novice I am not sure if or how I should try to add these items. I am getting the same error code

Event ID: 2017
The server was unable to allocate from the system nonpaged pool because the server reached the configured limit for nonpaged pool allocations.

Can someone help me figure out what i need to do. I am running windows 7, 64bit machine.

thanks
phyl

Wow! This did the job! Someone should explain to MS that it would be a good idea to give users a hint in the event description what’s actually going on *grrr*

This worked! I’m very happy. Thanks for the post.