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You can download a patch for Excel 2000 from Microsoft that allows you to open Quattro Pro files. It seems to work fine except when I'm opening a file on a network drive. Any time I try to open a file on the network, Excel freezes. Does anyone have a fix for this?

<< Let us know how everything works out. You have certainly piqued some curiosity here. Best of luck. >> The whole problem around here is that our network was thrown together by people with no novell experience and in many cases, barely any networking experience. Now we have our consultant...

<< You mentioned you opened a service call with Novell. Did they/you make sure that your DHCP table is not corrupt? >> It's actually a third party consultant we work with. I do believe he checked that.

<< So this answers my previous question about whether you were seeing corresponding messages on the client and server. Would it be possible for you to put a host on a segment local to the server, ie NOT linked to it by the L3 switch? Config it for DHCP and see if you can reproduce the problem...

<< sys:\system\console.log If you are running conlog, that is. Check you autoexec.ncf file and I believe the first line should be &quot;load conlog&quot; or just &quot;conlog&quot; since it is NW5. It's been a while, so I could be wrong about the nlm. >> sorry, no log file exists. the...

<< Oh one more thing -- how is your timesync on the server? Clients keeping good time? DSREPAIR's look normal? You'd be surprised how a little lost sync can really hose up a good Novell network. Can you post the console log from a server getting this DHCP error? You are logging console...

<< Here is a description of the error from Novell My guess would just be that whoever set up that DHCP scope did not exclude some static addresses that you are using or you just have some rougue users that think they can just pick and address and use it. Have you bee tracking what the...

<< Ok, Have you tried to increase the lease expiration? How many hops are the clients from the server? Does this happen on the local segment? What version of DHCP (modules dhcpsrvr), mine is 3.01d. Are you on Win98 second release? Are you running the latest Client32 or are you running the...

<< BTW - what is the lease time set to on the server? >> 7 days

<< Hi, It sounds like your client lease is expiring at the server before the client renews it. If you are sure this is not happening then write a batch file or hack the registry so that the client releases the address on shutdown. This will give you some time to put a sniffer on the wire to...

<< Have you found a pattern, like IP's out of a particular scope getting conflicts? Draw out a diagram of how your network is layed out, label the routers/switches/hubs/servers (all interfaces on the servers) as such. You are obviously running IP, how about IPX? You'd be surprised what you...

<< Are you running dhcp on the Novell server? >> Yes. << And what about a network diagram and protocol breakdown? Interesting problem. Have you sniffed the segment where this is occuring? >> i have no network diagram to offer. protocol breakdown meaning what? and i honestly don't...

<< Oh, I've got a fix: get rid of IP and use IPX. Goodbye addressing conflicts! ;) >> that was my favorite solution also, but unfortunately i'm not in charge so i don't get to make that decision. :)

<< My second best guess (supplied by one of the guys I work with) is that perhaps there are address assignments being issued by DHCP that are overlapping with hard-coded addresses (like maybe you forgot to exclude them from the DHCP pool). For example, you have a router at 172.16.1.254/24...and...

<< what kind of error message are you getting? symptoms of the problem? >> &quot;Windows has detected a conflict of IP for address XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX&quot; and it tells you the mac address... don't remember the exact wording. on the server you will see this: &quot;Received an unexpected...