>>We tried the other way 'round - moved the apps to this machine and used that for a server - no luck either. It just plain worked fine when we had just W95 everywhere. Of course, if all the files are local, it runs whooosh.
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>>Anyone knowing quick'n'dirty trick to speed this up? Protocol is TCP/IP, machines are mostly k5/166 to 233, with 16 to 64M.
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>I'd also recommend checking your services and see if there are any that you can disable. Are you running anti virus software that includes the data files and associated memo and indices? Check you virtual memory settings also, if you can put your pagefiles on a fat partition you'll get better performance because it doesn't have the overhead of ntfs (it doesn't have to have tables for security, long file names, etc.)

It's definitely the network. Everything works high speed locally, and not only FPD and/or VFP have problems communicationg down the cable - it's also any other copy operation; even browsing a HTML page showed speeds of 500 cps or so from the machine on the next desk.

Taken your advice, though, and uninstalled the Norton Utilities (remember how this slowed W95 machines, and don't care if they say this is NT version). Didn't help; we'll try to put another NIC tomorrow. If ever I had a network card which was nice to avoid, it's Realtek 8029.