I have a customer with a networking (?) problem. I have searched this list and found postings about similar symptoms to his. Unfortunately all postings I found were about problems on Novell networks.

He's got Win 3.11 clients and an NT 4.0 server. He runs NetBEUI and not TCP/IP. He claims Word and Excel run fine from the server, but OI 3.61 does not. He uses NPP 1.5 but no NT Service Pack.

When he starts the app it most often runs for a while, but rather slowly. Then he gets "Network Error on Drive G:". After cancelling that he gets "Fatal Engine Error ENG0805 LH.DLL LH". This message means there is some DLL that LH.DLL cannot find, according to the postings I've read.

Running client install was adviced in some of the replies, so I've mailed my customer a client install to see if that helps. Perhaps I should wait with my question until after he tried that, but I don't expect results back until tomorrow, and with the time difference between us here in Norway and most of you other guys (sorry - is there a gender neutral equivalent to that term?) I'd like to do what I can to get his system on the air one day earlier if possible.

So are there any kind souls (note gender neutral term) out there with suggestions for a cause or cure for this problem?

- Oystein -

Oystein,

On the Windows NT server CD, there is a big patch for Windows 3.11 networking. If he has not applied that patch, he is lucky he can connect at all.

Cameron Purdy

Revelation Software

Cameron,

Thanks! I don't know yet if that's his problem, but I'll mail him immediately.

What he's done in the meantime is to install Win 95 on one of the workstations. From that workstation he got no more network errors, but the app still ran slow. After that he tried the client install, and the speed improved too.

He's not yet tried Win 3.11 again. At least he hasn't reported back to me about it.

- Oystein -

A friend of mine works for an AI company up in Boston. He thought it would be a really cool idea to invent some shoes with AI. This way, the shoes would be able to tie their own laces and help get the wearer home after a good night out on the town. Things went great for a short time and my friend became real attached to his shoes.

Well, something went wrong, and shoes started taking him places he had no desire to go and he really didn't feel safe wearing them any longer. He tried locking them in a closet, but they kept kicking the door in. He tried giving them away, but they just kept walking back home. They followed him everwhere. Eventually, the shoes become real despondent and just sulked around house. One day, he came home and found the shoes broke into his car and tried driving. They crashed into the Charles and both shoes drowned.

My friend was mortified and couldn't help feeling that he drove them to their deaths. While talking to his priest, he told him the story. The priest told him that the shoes were better of since their in heaven. After all, shoes have souls, don't they?

akaplan@sprezzatura.com

Sprezzatura, Inc.

Aaron,

Shoes most certainly have souls, at least until their owner reaches second grade and learns to spell. But if we forget about shoes for now, "souls" might indeed be the term I'm looking for. Except I know of a couple of programmers I think must have sold their souls to the devil; they're simply too good. Me, I'm not a good programmer. I've spent the whole days now debugging without any result. Had a program that worked perfectly, tidied up the code, test ran the program and it crashed, changed back again and the program still crashes.

But I enjoyed that story. It brightened up my day. That and the user with the Win 3.11 / NT 4.0 / Network Error / ENG 0805 problem not calling back yet. (Sounds like a sad life, eh?) Thanks.

- Oystein -

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