Chris,

>I have a 6.0 exe loaded on a Novell 4.x server and the exe opens quickly for the first person to open it. After that, all other users see a significant slow-down in the opening (about 21 seconds). We have Novell Client 3.30 loaded on the all of the workstations.

This could be somewhat common behaviour, even on a NT network. I've noticed that on my network, applications start about a few seconds slower when the same application was openen on another workstation. I don't know for sure why it is that way, but I'll guess this has something to do with the Exclusive Oplocking mechanism from the OS.

Exclusive Oplocking is a mechanism that gives a workstation exclusive rigths (MS kb Q129202) to a shared file as longs as the workstation is the only one accessing this file. This allows the workstation to hold read and writebuffers. When a second workstation requests access to the same file, the redirector requests the other workstation to flush its writebuffers. This makes that using an application on only one workstation to be far faster than on two.

Depending on the number of tables and databases used and opening at the beginning of your application this might be well the case.

However, I don't know how this fits in your Novell server case. I don't know if it supports opportunistic locking.

Walter,


>Any ideas?