This sounds like what I just ran into.

How do you change to the old Novell client?

I have found that taking off the IPX binding for the network card made the connection to SQL Server considerable faster.

>If you have a Novell/NT network, make sure you have the old Novell Client32 installed. I had performance problems on a computer identical to another one. The only difference was the Novell Client. Changing the Novell client to the old one solved everything.
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>Does anyone know why ?
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>Thanks,
>Juri