There are known issues with some Novell drivers and VFP. These are documented on the Novell website. Generally when you upgrade to the latest drivers, the problems go away.

>Hi all,
>After playing with this problem for a while we finally know the reason (almost).
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>We have six workstations Win2K Pro, VFP7 on a Novell LAN. Tables are located on the LAN, we are using standalone machines, each with a copy of VFP. Opening a table with a dialog box eg USE ?, opens a table as ReadOnly. Opening a table from the Command Window eg USE tablename, opens the file normally.
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>This problem did not occur on all machines. We discovered that changing from the Novell client to the Microsoft client made the problem go totally away. (!)
>We're now looking to see if the NIC's are part of the problem, or possibly the positioning of the PC's on the LAN.
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>This, of course :( means that we cannot use the NPRINT command. We use this a lot in our business. If anyone is aware of a Novell client that doesn't exhibit this behavior or of a MicroSoft client that allows NPRINT and other fuctionality, please let me know.
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>TIA