MS Excel very slow during Save-As

[nwoliver]

This may not be a Netware issue, but I thought I would ask. I have several users (myself included) using MS Office XP and/or MS Office 2003 who have problems when attempting to open an Excel file when using the Excel Open File dialog box.

When already in Excel, and opening a file from within Excel, the process seems to take an unusually long period of time (sometimes several minutes). This may be due to a very large number of files in the directory or on that volume, but want to confirm this. In every case the user reports (including myself) that access via the Excel Open Files dialog box used to be fast, but now is very slow. Has anyone run across this problem and is there a fix or work around?

 

[Datong]

Hi

there are several known issues with MS and Netware. the first thing to try is to enter these commands on the server console.

SET CLIENT FILE CACHING ENABLED=OFF
SET LEVEL 2 OPLOCKS ENABLED=OFF

This is usually the fix for this type of problem.

 

[nwoliver]

Already done.
nwo

 

[Datong]

Hi,
sounds like you have several more serious issues with your servers than just locked accounts and slow file access. Are you replicas in sync and communicating properly ? Is time synchronized ?

 

[nwoliver]

Yes, all that is done.. Actually, Marvin works with me pretty regularly and we check that sort of thing periodically. I will, however, go back and run those checks again just to update things and get all the dsrepairs current.
nwo

 

[marvhuffaker]

Datong, I disagree. He does not have serious server issues. Actually they are running pretty sweet, if I must say so

I believe the issues are more workstation related, or they could have to do with various service advertising and browsing on the workstation.

Here is a link to a page that talks about various client settings that can be made to improve general performance.

http://www.ithowto.com/novell/clientspeed.htm

(It's a little old, but some of the concepts still apply)



Marvin Huffaker, MCNE

http://www.redjuju.com

 

[nwoliver]

Thanks guys.. this all helps. The dsrepair apparently helped quite a bit and I am going to take advantage of the tips in the clientspeed document.
nwo

 

[sstoppel]

My organization found a bug in XP clients using 4.91 client. It specifically related to crashes and issues closing Office docs, so you may want to get the latest client.

 

[terry712]

to me every time you have an excel problem

the first man to look at is nwfs
it is always the one with the beta patch aginst him in client updates

dsrepairs fixes rather than diags should not be run as a scheduled maintenence - run them when you have a ds problem - slow file access is not a ds issue - well 95% of time it's not - and most of the 5% will most likely be nds design prob rather than a straight ds issue