First, I would like to thank everyone for all the neat leads and good discussion  on 
using Novell drives.  But I may be missing the point or I was not clear.  Let me 
reiterate.

Other than the drop in dbms performance, nothing has changed with how the Sambar box 
accesses a remote Novell drive.  Remember, it is not a question of access or 
authentication, because it did work, and work very well.  So the question comes down 
to performance.  Maybe the following "illustration" would help.

This worked initially worked, and for several years, very fast but performance 
suddenly dropped dramatically:
Sambar -> ODBCcache -> ODBCsystem data source -> Novell drive

To regain lightning fast performance I have re-configured to this:
Sambar -> ODBCcache - ODBCsystem data source -> local drive

The difference being that all database tables are now on the same box as Sambar.  
Initially, everything worked with the ODBC system data source configured to map to a 
remote Novell drive, and it worked lighting fast.

Michael
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