🚀 go-pugleaf

                        Help!! Bizarre System Error!!
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                    Interim Report (Not Solution Summary)
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        I haven't found the answer to this problem yet, in spite of the 
excellent help I have been getting from you netters. I didn't want anyone 
to think I was ungrateful, so many sincere thanks from the heart of my 
bottom to everyone who took the time out to reply to my post ; and 
here's a summary of the stuff I've tried so far.

1).     Remove "lastdrive=" statement from the config.sys.
        
        If I do this the PC won't attach to the network. Maybe this
        would work for Novell, but for PC-NFS it's a no-no.


2).     Set "lastdrive=" to the letter that is before the drives the
        network need to work.

        Again, the PC fails to mount the network.


3).     Remove any "subst" drives.

        None are set up.


4).     Load the network drivers ahead of windows.

        I do.


5).     Do you run Win 3.1 rather than 3.0 ?

        Yes.


6).     Is file manager or an application trying to read the j: drive     
        on Windows launch?

        No.


7).     Set up Win31 for PC-NFS : special TSRs & tell Windows 
        'there is no network'.

        I am using the standard setup for windows & PC-NFS which
        works on 100's of PCs on campus every day. {But not this 
        one *sob* :( } It does include theose TSRs & Windows is set
        up for 'no network'.

Thats most of it. Finally, I have reinstalled Windows, and reinstalled the     
network connection software, and no joy. I even tried running the network 
version of windows, rather than this guy's local version, and that 
displayed the same symptoms. The network version is definately set up OK,
so I am beginning to believe the problem is not with Windows.

I think I'll check out the PC-NFS newsgroups, and see if anyone there 
can suggest anything else.

A big thanks once again to all who replied. As a guy posted to me the 
other day: "What a pleasure to work in a community where people
help each other, like here on the Internet."

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