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From: romero@mind.UUCP (Antonio Romero)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Novel problems with Novell networks
Message-ID: <1411@mind.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 1-Dec-87 23:17:55 EST
Article-I.D.: mind.1411
Posted: Tue Dec  1 23:17:55 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 5-Dec-87 09:32:39 EST
Organization: Cognitive Science, Princeton University
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Keywords: crashes kaboom la-la-land Novell unreliable ???


Anyone else out there running a Novell network and having random crashes
frequently? Where I work for money we've got a network of PC and AT clones 
all running dos 3.2 (I think) hooked together with a Novell network.
Fairly frequently (average, once every two hours?) a machine will hang
at the beginning of any task ranging from trying to compile something
with any of the four compilers we use in-house or trying to invoke MKS'
"vi" to simply trying to change drives (e.g. typing "f:" will take the
machine down).  I've even seen things as simple as cd or pressing
return on an empty line (!) crash a machine.  Now, since this sometimes
happens IMMEDIATELY after booting and logging on, and happens on all of
our different (a random Taiwanese PC, an AT&T 6300, AT&T 6310, an AT of
extremely dubious pedigree, a genuine IBM PC from the dawn of time and
a Sperry IT as the dedicated server) machines, I don't ascribe it to
the flakiness of any one machine, or to anyone's weird BIOS (if IBM's
doesn't work with it, how can anyone elses?), so what I'm finally
asking is, does anyone know what could be behind all these weird
crashes? And how can they be prevented in the future, if at all?

Anyone out there got any suggestions? Thanks very much.
-Antonio Romero      romero@psycho.Princeton.EDU