>Peter,
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>A fascinating tale of woe.
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>I've read the whole thing and one factor that you may not have addressed is the network cabling. You stated that you have changed the hardware-- routers, hubs, servers. Perhaps the NT Server is more tolerant of a cabling fault than Novell is. Has the network cabling been tested and proven to be in compliance with Cat5 specifications?
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>HTH,

Randy, I surely admit that it looks like resonance, and I didn't check that with our customers involved. But yes, we have that (for some ages ... But hmmm, not tested ;)