Error: Cannot Open Networks Database file rt when trying to add ro

This is on a Server 2003 box.

Recently my VPN client started not automatically creating all its necessary
route statements I discovered, so I attempted to add one manually and I
receive.

Error: Cannot Open Networks Database file rt

Twice whenever I try to do a route add. I can't find anything about this
online or in the KB other than to check the
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\Tcpip\Parameters\DataBasePath
key whcih is set to %SystemRoot%\System32\drivers\etc and is REG_SZ which is
the same as the rest of my server farm and appears to be the default from
what I've found online.

Permission on the "networks" file is system and administrators full control,
power users and users only have read.

The file appears to be the default:

# Copyright (c) 1993-1999 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This file contains network name/network number mappings for
# local networks. Network numbers are recognized in dotted decimal form.
#
# Format:
#
# <network name> <network number> [aliases...] [#<comment>]
#
# For example:
#
# loopback 127
# campus 284.122.107
# london 284.122.108

loopback 127

Any suggestions?

The OS attempts to open the networks file w/ read permissions in text mode.
rt is read/text mode. If the file does not exist or cannot be found then it
fails. Try investigating the problem with filemon. Turn off av software.
Make sure you have perms on all of the directories in the path above.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sys...k/Filemon.mspx

"John Hardwick" wrote:

> This is on a Server 2003 box.
>
> Recently my VPN client started not automatically creating all its necessary
> route statements I discovered, so I attempted to add one manually and I
> receive.
>
> Error: Cannot Open Networks Database file rt
>
> Twice whenever I try to do a route add. I can't find anything about this
> online or in the KB other than to check the
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\Tcpip\Parameters\DataBasePath
> key whcih is set to %SystemRoot%\System32\drivers\etc and is REG_SZ which is
> the same as the rest of my server farm and appears to be the default from
> what I've found online.
>
> Permission on the "networks" file is system and administrators full control,
> power users and users only have read.
>
> The file appears to be the default:
>
> # Copyright (c) 1993-1999 Microsoft Corp.
> #
> # This file contains network name/network number mappings for
> # local networks. Network numbers are recognized in dotted decimal form.
> #
> # Format:
> #
> # <network name> <network number> [aliases...] [#<comment>]
> #
> # For example:
> #
> # loopback 127
> # campus 284.122.107
> # london 284.122.108
>
> loopback 127
>
> Any suggestions?
>