>>Question: How are they running Novell 4.1? That should be the file server. Network OSs (Novell, NT) can handle many more open files than a DOS system ever dreamed of.
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>Hi Larry,
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>They are running Novell 4.1 on their Server. Its just that the Server does not have Windows on it. The workstations do, however.
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>Will this work, or do they actually need Windows on their server?
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>I did follow the instructions in the other thread for changing the "Use Extended files handles" to On. This did not work. The client is now trying to determine what the "Maximum Locks per Connection" setting is set to on the Server. Maybe I can just try to increase this setting from whatever the value is now?
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>Thanks,
>Paul

PMFJI, but we've had this problem on Novell servers before.
There may be a better answer, but upping the Maximum file locks per Connection to the max allowed fixed it for us.
The default is 250, which can be low for large systems.
HTH