Starnge FM behaviour

[DMacPherson]

Configuration:

FM Server 3.0 running on a Blue G3 with Mac/OS 8.5.1. The database files (44 of them) are stored on a Novell server. There are a mixture of Win95, Win98 and various Macs all running FMP 4.1v3. No more than 10 workstations are using the Host at one time.

Only on a few Macs do we get times when part or all of the contents of a window go blank. The FM menus seem to work, we can use keyboard commands and if you know where a button is supposed to be on the layout you can click on it and the script will run. However if we try to continue, FM will soon lock up the computer. This does not happen every time or always with the same computer. Never on the PCs.

Any suggestions (Help!)would be greatly appreciated.

Doug

[LiveOak]

Ohhhhhh! FileMaker, Inc.'s recommendation is that databased hosted by FileMaker Server be located on the hard drive of the hosting machine. A serious speed (and maybe stability) degradation will occur otherwise. It would be a good idea to move the files to the local hard drive and use the backup scripting feature in FM Server 3.0 to perform backups to the Novell volume. You may just be experiencing why they make this recommendation. -bd