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Windows SP2 very slow in Netware 6.0 SP5 server

1. I have Netware 6.- SP5 and Windows XPSP2 client, I'm using Mas90 accounting system. The server is running Xeon 2.0 GHz with 1.0 GB RAM. The server and clients access is running good, but after few our client access and MAs90 program very very slow. To make thing faster i have to restart the netware server again.

2. How to configure my client to use only IP accessing the server, how to specify from the server side to use IP only not IPX

thanks

umang505

2.Install Netware client Ver 4.9 sp2 using "custom" option and select "IP protocol only".

On the server side it is very easy .
Check for the line similar to
"Load ce1000 int=x frame ethernet_802.2 name = abc"
"bind ipx to ce1000---"
remark the line beginning with " Bind ipx ...."

1.For Ques.1 please check ' number of files and buffers in the config.sys on Server's c: drive.(Dos Partition)
Best of luck

umang505

you can download and install the latest client ver 4.91 also
http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=2ss2JIYshRc~
Novell® Client™ v4.91 for Windows* 2000/XP is the latest Windows 2000/XP client software release available from Novell.

ShineOn

To expand on umang505's #2 answer - that way will work if you do not use inetcfg to configure networking. A lot of people do, and although PsiCop hates it, it has a couple of good things like the "reinitialize system" command to reset your network configuration on-the-fly to whatever you changed it to. If you don't use inetcfg and follow umang5095's directions, that will work going forward, but for immediate "gratification" you would also have to unbind IPX from the network card that IPX is bound to, using the unbind command.

If you have inetcfg, you unbind IPX from the card and turn IPX protocol off from inside inetcfg and then issue the "reinitialize system" command from the console prompt.

For question 1, it is possible that you are experiencing the NSS cache memory leak problem Did you update your eDirectory to 8.7.3 also, in addition to the NetWare 6 Support Pack 5? If so, you should check out this TID: http://support.novell.com/cgi-bin/search/searchtid.cgi?/10091980.htm

tropicmar

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To narrow the problem, i ask the user just to restart the workstation running windows xpsp2 with client 4.83sp3 and she said the computer work fine as far as the speed is concern. So she always have to restart client computer if she encounter a slow processing of her Mas90 program that is install to anetware 6 sp5 server.

thanks

ShineOn

So it's not the server that needs a reboot, but the client. Ignore the NSS cache issue for this, then.

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