The Novell clients for Windows are notoriously unrealable. Every time they release new version, it breaks something. If you found version that works, stick with it.
BTW, we moved from Novell to Windows network a couple of years ago and don't miss it at all.

> I am trying to find the answer to the following question:
>
>We have an application designed on top of Visual Foxpro and .Net and it
>has a Windows service running on WinXP workstation. Service needs to
>connect to Visual Foxpro database sitting on the NetWare volume.
>
>I created local Windows account on this PC with username and password
>matching NDS user and service starts perfectly fine. All current updates
>are installed in XP, Novell Client is 4.91SP2, server is NW65SP6 with some
>post SP6 updates. The NDS user has all rights in the database directory.
>
>As soon as I install 4.91 SP3 client, the service can't start anymore with
>the error "invalid path to the database". Workstation still can login and
>browse to the database and has all rights there. If I reinstall SP2
>client, it works again. Installing SP3 client - fails again - I did this
>twice already on the test workstation.
>
>I did put the post SP3 client updates (nwfs.sys) and also tried beta
>nwsso.dll and nwgina.dll but no luck.
>
>We have two locations (same NDS tree, different servers) with the exact
>same problem, SP3 breaking the service logon.
>
>