Wayne,

Just the kind of response/help I needed. I will be discussing it with our Novell guys (who are now trying to push us towards moving file stuff to an NT box even though they are "seasoned, die-hard" Novell CNE's...glad I don't own stock in Novell!).

Thanks again,

Albert

>Albert:

>Client32 is the worst piece of software I have ever had to try to work with. The client attempts to gain performance by caching things locally (as well as other things), and as a result can cause severe problems when accessing a large data store on a Novell server.
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>I have personally worked with MS and Novell to try and solve the problem with open (fee based) trouble tickets with both companies. And I never solved anything.
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>The options proposed on MS's site and Novell's site detail how to cripple the Novell client software to alleviate the problems. What it appears to me is that they want you to disable all the features of the client to get it to work.
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>The only options I found that work are... (1)switch to NT and use the client for NT - this client is different, and does not have problems, (2)remove the Novell client and use Microsoft's client instead - the MS client does not have the overhead that the Novell client does (appears to use the KISS method) and just works.
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>HTH
>Wayne