>The error it's returning is 85.

That's: "The local device name is already in use."

>Where do you find what errors mean what?

There are two places. In this case, it may be declared in the Winnetwk.h header file. In this case, I didn't look in the header. The full install of VS includes a number of useful tools, including one to look up error numbers: Error Lookup. It's under Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0/Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 Tools.