Windows 2000 Server Configuration

If you want to run ADPlus in crash mode on Microsoft Windows 2000 Server, you must prepare the server for debugging in crash mode.

To prepare the server, you must do the following:

1. Install the Windows 2000 with Service Pack 1 (SP1) or Windows 2000 with Service Pack 2 (SP2) symbols (Sp1sym.exe or Sp2sym.exe) to the C:\WINNT\Symbols folder on your servers. You can download the symbols from the  Windows Symbols Web site.
2. After you download Sp1sym.exe or Sp2sym.exe, run the file from the designated folder.
3. When you are prompted, extract the files to a new temporary folder (such as C:\Sp1sym or C:\Sp2sym) or to a drive or folder that has sufficient disk space.
4. Run C:\Sp1sym\Support\Debug\Symbols\i386\Symbolsx.exe or C:\Sp2sym\Support\Debug\Symbols\i386\Symbolsx.exe (where C:\Sp1sym or C:\Sp2sym is the folder where you extracted the files in the preceding step).
5. Read the license agreement and then click Yes.
6. When you are prompted for a directory where you can extract the files to, select C:\WINNT\Symbols, and then click OK. A new C:\WINNT\Symbols directory appears with various subdirectories named DLL, EXE, and so on.
7. Copy the symbols for your custom DLLs and any hotfixes that came after the service packs (SP1 and SP2) to the C:\WINNT\Symbols\DLL folder.
8. Copy the symbols for your custom .exe files to the C:\WINNT\Symbols\EXE folder and obtain any .pdb or .dbg files that are related to the target application and put these files in the C:\WINNT\Symbols\DLL folder.
9. Overwrite any .dbg or .pdb files that already exist in the C:\WINNT\Symbols\DLL directory with versions from your hotfixes.

   You can use the latest version of WinZip to open hotfix packages. You can extract the symbols from the \Debug subdirectory, which is contained in each hotfix self-installer.

10. Create an _NT_SYMBOL_PATH environment variable, and set it equal to "C:\WINNT\Symbols". This variable can be a system environment variable or a user environment variable.