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We have been having the following problem when running applications from a
Novell server. Actually we have a very large network with several Novell
servers and the problem occurs on most of them.

It seems that when the users run various commercial applications which
reside on a Novell file server (primarily the Microsoft Office suite) and
store their documents locally on their hard drive the documents
periodically, and fairly consistently lose their application specific
icons.

The documents on the users hard drive then begin displaying the generic
document icon (rather than the document icon associated with the
application).  Double-clicking the document gives the error which states
"the application which created the document could not be found".  The user
*IS* connected to the Novell file server when these errors occur.

The only fix we've found for the situation is to clear the initted bit on
the application and then double-click the application to cause it to be
re-read into the server's desktop database.  We've also tried completely
re-building the desktop on the servers.
Both of these fixes are only temporary and the problem seems to re-occur
after only a few days.

Does anyone know what could be causing this problem and if so is there a
more permanent fix?

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- Steve Herman - BCSS
- Boeing Computer Support Services
- Huntsville, AL
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