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Greetings.  I have a mildly annoying and RECURRING problem with the
Macintosh desktop on some Novell NetWare servers.  To be specific, each has
a separate partition setup to be accessed by the Macs via AppleTalk.

Starting applications by double-clicking on a document's icon will
frequently result in a dialog box with a message like:
 _____________________________________________________________________
|	  The NCSA/BYU Telnet 2.5 document "rock the casbah" could not be   |
|   opened, because the application program that created it could     |
|   not be found.                                          ______     |
|                                                         |  OK  |    |
|                                                          ~~~~~~     |
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I've tried rebuilding the desktop (which means logging in as "supervisor"
from a Mac running system 6, while holding down the command and option
keys).  This seems to repair any missing ICON data, but doesn't really
solve this problem.

Starting applications by double-clicking on the applications' icons works
correctly.  Applications, once run, can be found by clicking on a document
until such time as the server volume is dragged to the trash or the system
has been restarted.  After this, the original problem returns.   

The group MACUSERS has Read and File Scan access to the volume.  The group
EVERYONE has full access to an file exchange folder.  PC's can access it,
but transferring DOS files doesn't affect the desktop, since these files
don't impact the Mac name space.  There don't appear to be any system
errors relating to this problem.                        
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