>We have an application running on Novell Netware 32 Client. We are getting two errors consistently.
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>- Invalid Seek Offset
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>- Too many files open.
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>In my days of Novell 3.12 I seem to remember a configuration file in which you can increase the number of files for Novell but I have been told there is no such animal for Netware 32 clients. Any help you can give in this regards would be greatly appreciated.

I've had considerable trouble with Client32, especially with netWare 4.11 and IntraNetWare. The following are some general guidelines to reducing the problem (FWIW, the best alternative from my POV is to not use Novell's Client32; Microsoft's Client for NetWare seems to be far less trouble.)

On the workstation side, disable Write Caching and Packet Burst on all stations accessing your shared databases. Write Caching in particular is a complete disaster with shared file access.

On the server side, do not use Novell's File Compression on any server that has people sharing databases. Novell admits there are problems related to file compression; I've seen problems related to cache coherency, even with files that are entirely read-only, with NetWare 4.11. Once the problems start to occur, they recur constantly, and don't clean up until the firle server is reset.

Microsoft's Client for NetWare, while not as pretty, or as fast with fullest optimization, as the Client32 drivers, do not have the problems that Novell's Client software seems to have.

Under Win95, increasing the number of files that can be opened simultaneously on a station is controlled by the FILES= setting in CONFIG.SYS; the number can be set anywhere from 12-255, and defaults to something ludicrously small (20 in some versions, 40 in others.) Do not set BUFFERS= or FCBS=; the defaults should be fine, and getting these values wrong can cut into available memory for VDMs without having any significant effect on performance other than during the boot process.