>We are running the latest version of Novell fileservers and we are finding that if we do not open the VFP DBFs exclusively update (append from, etc.) performance is very slow by a factor of 10.

>Are there any Novell settings on the server to fix this? It's absolutely unacceptable.

Have you excluded the DBF's, DBC's and other FoxPro files from the Novell server's virus scanner.