>I have an application that has been running on a Novell 3.12 network for the last two years. It has been running fine. My client decided (foolishly) to switch to NT Server 4.0, with workstations using Win 95. The application now takes a very long time to start up, since all dbf's are opened when the app starts. Different workstations seem to be taking different amounts of time. Once the app is running, anything that accesses the data (SQL statements, scan, etc) also takes a long time. I am not very familiar with NT. The tech that installed it told me that he installed it with the defaults. Does anyone have any ideas about how I can speed up the app? Thanks.


A Novell "file server" based application will almost always run faster on a Novell server than NT. Novell benchmarks way better at being a "file server". A few recommendations are: beefing up the processor and ram on the NT Server, making sure you run the exe from the workstations and having the tempfiles on the local pcs. If you were running the exe or app from a network drive, changing it to the local workstations under NT will offer you quite a bit of performance gain.