>I ran a test last night with 32 bit client (2.5. It was going to ad about 400,000 records to a table with inserts. I am running on a pentium 300 with 64 MB , windows 98, and 32 bit client 2.5. I left it at 6:30. When I got back in this morning, my machine was completely hung. (key strokes just beeped) I rebooted and tried to open the table. Guess what??? INDEX DOES NOT MATCH TABLE….. CDX file size was 0K and the dbf was 1 K.
>The network guy here said that I was locked because I was logged off at midnight.
>This process took 1 hour locally. It should have been completed.
>The client has caching turned off and true commit turned off

Make certain that:

(1) Write caching and Packet burst are disabled on the NetWare Client Both have caused problems in NetWare environments for us under a number of circumstances.

(2) The file server is not compressing the target volume. There are open issues with Novell's Client32 and a number of packages, including VFP, when accessing a compressed volume on a NetWare 4.x server. Essentially, if server-side compression is enabled, applications that have more than a small threshold number of files open at once will screw up in a number of ways during write operations to the compressed volume with the Novell Clinet. This problem does not occur with either of Microsoft's 32 bit clients for NetWare, or to NetWare volumes accessed in an NT domain environment via NT Server's Gateway Services for NetWare.

The easiest way to confirm that the problem lies here would be to install the Microsoft Client and try it again.