Sam,
I have never seen a Windows server as fast as a Novell server. However, I have seen too many problems with Novell and FoxPro in the past year to recommend Novell anymore. Everyone I talk to and everything I read says the same thing. MS has, to put it kindly, left enough bugs in the software so that it won't run reliably on Novell. As far as the slow index on small files, it is caused by a slow file open with Win 95-98. If you run the same thing from a Win 2K system the files open and index extreamly fast. (At least that has been my experiance do date on a number of PCs in a number of shops.) With your server reboot, I would replace the power supply. I have also seen the UPS software do this sort of thing.

John.



>Two that come to mind immediately:
>1) Report preview (FPW2.6) at the "preferred" screen resolution (800x600)of many of our clients was unreadable - the solution was either increase resolution to 1024x768 (yes, it's strange that making it smaller made it more legible....) or move the app to VFP (which is what we did because the clients couldn't tolerate 1024x768 on a 17" monitor). We are also reducing our use of Arial Narrow font which helps.
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>2) Disk access for certain functions is now at least double what it was using Win95/Netware 5. Opening a complex form for editing can include a trip to the coffee pot and a chat about last night's hockey game before it completes. Paradoxically running the same form seems to be about the same. Creating index tags on small tables seems to take much longer.
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>We also have lost a few management tools that we had gathered over the years that were specific to Netware such as viewing and closing, if necessary, shared open files. We can do this with XP/Win2000 but for each file close the screen goes through a long refresh and you then have to hunt for your next target.
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>As far as stability is concerned its a mixed bag: XP on the desktop is much more stable than our old mixture of 95/98 - three finger restarts are almost a thing of the past. But, and its a big but, our server seems to reboot at random several times a week (error message: "The recent server re-start was unexpected" - a masterful understatement!!!). The server automatically re-starts in seconds so things are not like a full blown Netware crash - but it still causes havoc with our many unattended systems.