Thanks for the ideas,

I will forward them to the Novell tech and see if it makes sense to him.

Steve.

"Steven Wong" <steve@triumph.com.au> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> Can I please get some help from any Novell experts.
>
> I have a site with Netware 6.4 using Novell Client 4.9 SP3 (I think), the
> data is held on a Novell File Server, but is being accessed using Windows

XP
> machines. When using our VDF application to do a basic function like

remove
> a full set of datafiles, the process seems to complete but if you inspect
> the directory half the files are still present. The system also hangs when
> doing a process that requires a deep interrogation of the data such as an
> End of Period process.
>
> After much hair pulling (changing drives, file systems, Novell Clients,
> configuration, setup, hardware) the Novell guy at the site, determined

that
> if he ran the Novell Client on an 98 machine everything worked fine, but
> running on the XP machines (which is what is installed at the moment) it
> fails. He seems to think it may be related to the Novell Client using the
> DOS api on 98 which is why it works, and incorrectly using the 32 bit api

on
> XP which is why it fails.
>
> I have no idea if he is right or not, but it's a measure of his

desperation
> that he's asked me about it as he knows that I know spit about networks

and
> less about Novell (he is the network and novell expert).
>
> Does anyone have any advice or experience that might help?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve.
>
>