>So we moved back to novell 3.2 which seemed to straigten things out. We then upgraded to novell 4.2. now most of these problems are back almost as bad as they were under NT. Novell 3.2 is significantly slower than NT or novell 4.2 and we really really need the speed of novell 4.2.
>I am beggining to suspect the the novell 4.2 file system is somewhat incompatible with fox 2.6 dos.

Have heart. There are a few problems but having the latest patches on the server, latest client and Fox2.6a will smooth things out.