Not enough server storage is available to process this command




Well I recently purchased a terabyte usb hard drive because I got it nice and cheap! ($200).  It’s one of those MyBook drives or whatever.  Anyways…I connected it to a server, shared it, and was able to access it from my workstation just fine…until..I rebooted the server.  I tried accessing the drive from my workstation after the reboot and received some stupid “Not enough server storage is available to process this command” error.  Weird because it was working just fine.  After a quick Google search, I found the fix that worked for me. 

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/177078

Basically I had to create a new value in the registry

  • Start
  • Run
  • regedit
  • Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Parameters
  • with the Parameters folder selected, right-click it
  • go to New and click DWord Value
  • type IRPStackSize exactly as displayed
  • change base to Decimal
  • I set my value to 30 because the default value of 15 didn’t work for me
  • close out of the registry and reboot the server.
  • It worked!
  1. s said on June 27th, 2008 at 1:57 pm

    This is working good. Thanks for sharing.

  2. Steve said on July 25th, 2008 at 3:19 pm

    You don’t need to reboot.

    net stop lanmanserver
    net start lanmanserver

  3. Packrat1947 said on September 12th, 2008 at 5:12 pm

    Thanks for the great tip. All of a sudden none of my computers would access my main computer. Weird. A google search brought me to here. The only thing that changed on my main computer was that today I attemped to update my SpySweeper program – not the definitions. Anyhow, it failed and I had to reinstall an older version. This went fine; except the stacksize issue reared its ugly head. So not only a antivirus prog. can cause this issue.

    I created the IRPStackSize entry (30), and used the stop and start lanmanserver commands. Like a miracle the main computer was seen again, and the pages started tumbling out of its printer.

    Cheers from Ohio

  4. chris said on September 18th, 2008 at 9:36 am

    worked great for me, thats for the writeup.

  5. Fagan said on September 18th, 2008 at 4:30 pm

    Yeeeeehaaaaa!!!! Works for Me!!!!!
    Thanks for the info

  6. A Moses said on February 15th, 2009 at 6:07 pm

    Thanks, this solved it for me also!

  7. nitin said on February 22nd, 2009 at 8:39 pm

    i have done this process .now its working fine

  8. Blah Blah said on April 15th, 2009 at 5:41 am

    Thanks for the great tip/walkthrough!

    What a relief to have this working again…

  9. Degree said on May 31st, 2010 at 12:37 am

    Dude, thank you so much. It work! ^_^

  10. Paulo said on March 21st, 2011 at 8:19 pm

    this is the real solution the others is just a waste of time! thanks man… simple but very useful!

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