It sounds like the network cannot handle load. You should think about upgraiding to Win2K or NT server.

>I have a bit of a problem here. I am running my application at 35 practices as we speak with excellent results. We recently installed the application at our largest clinic with an 18 node network.
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>The app runs fine with moderate load, but as soon as the system gets busy - we are getting tremendous amounts of network errors.
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>Error #1 "File does not exist" is the most common. We get this with the name of the database + the local directory. We get c:\localdirectory\appdata.dbc does not exist. The application database is actually located at d:\vvldata\appdata.dbc which is the shared directory.
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>Error #41 "Memo missing or invalid" is also common. With this message at least it is pointing to the d:\vvvldata shared folder.
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>Any thoughts would be appreciated. This is a WIN98 network running peer-to-peer. We swapped out the file "server" - made no difference.
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>Thanks in advance.