>It also depends on what applications you are running. Certain applications like Pegasus Mail (32 bit) won't run unless your using the Novell Client. Most people here are using the Novell Client and foxpro seems to run allright.

If an application relies on NDS (which an e-mail program could well do, if it's specifically designed to run on a Novell network) then, as I said, you'll need the Novell client, or else Microsoft Services for NDS (MSNDS) running on an NT/W2K box.

My experience, and the general consensus around here is that Client32 should be avoided if you're running FP/VFP apps especially, and that can probably be extended to any file-server based database that employs file and record locking. To use Client32 successfully requires late-version clients installed at all workstations with various caching and "go-fast" settings disabled.

There have been many threads discussing problems with Novell Client32 on this forum over the last couple of years.