Troubleshooting Workstations

This section provides troubleshooting suggestions for typical NetWare^® client (workstation) problems, including ways to resolve workstation memory problems. This section also lists common NetWare workstation error messages (the 900 series of messages).

Resolving Workstation Memory Problems

DOS Workstations

To free up DOS workstation memory temporarily (until you can add more memory to the workstation), do one or more of the following.

• Unload any unneeded TSR (terminate-and-stay-resident) programs.
• Optimize memory usage by loading DOS and other programs into high memory.
• Modify the CONFIG.SYS file to reduce the number of files that can be open at the same time, the number of buffers allocated for disk drives, and the memory size allocated by the shell for the DOS environment (the /E option).

  The following settings are sufficient for normal workstation operation, but the values can be reduced further until problems occur:

  FILES=20

  BUFFERS=20

  SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM /E:640 /P

  Be sure to reboot the machine after modifying the CONFIG.SYS file.

Resolving Workstation Disk Space Problems

To resolve an insufficient disk space error, do one or both of the following:

• Delete unnecessary files and directories from the volume.
• Unload TSR (terminate-and-stay-resident) programs that have swap files on the hard disk.