Office Documents Freezes after it's Opened..

[mcship]

I have weird issue that I'm having trouble pin-pointing. I have two users, both running Win 98SE, and both using Office 2000. When they open an office document that is stored on the Novell file sever the document opens fine but
then will freeze for about 30 to 45 secs and then work normally again. This happens to all types of Office documents and when I copy the same documents to the local hard drive or to a Windows NT server then the issue doesn't
happen. Both of them have the same Anti Virus program and I've re-installed it, I've removed it and the problem still happens. They also have the latest Novell client. There were no changes to the network that I can remember and it's only effecting two users, which by the way started at
different times. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciative.

Thanks....

 

[Rob2806]

Have you checked for a cable problem between the server and the computer?

 

[mcship]

Rob2806...If it was everyone that access the server was affected and if editing the host file didn't resolved it for everyone then I could see that being a factor, but with the problem being resolved by editing the hosts file it's for sure a name resolution issue, I'm just curious why it's not effecting everyone and why it suddenly happened.