Hi I am new here. I am great fan and wmware workstation user. However, for the school I teach in, the budget wouldn't allow me to purchase workstation and I am trying to use the free vmware server (1.5) for somethign in my class. I've created a new workstation build for our core 2 duos machines. We are a Novell eDirectory school and with this new worksation build I started noticing that if anyone tried to log in when the workstation started they were getting t"ee or server not found" from the Novell Client login. If they were to wait nearly a minute then they could login. OK.

I have tracked this issue down to the vmware virtual LAN adapters. If I disable the vmware virtual LAN adapters then the login is immediate and fast. I've downlowded a copy of the latest VMWare server 2 and the same thing applies although disabling the IEEE authentication does help on the V2. I have also tried unticking the Novell Client option on the Virtual NIC settings. Other than disableing tthe adapter I am abit stumped.

Any ideas?

cheers and thanks

Tom