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Older PATHWORKS on Newer PC Systems?

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The Question is:

 
we are currently in the process of upgrading our pc population from windows
for workgroups 3.11 to win95. The wfwg pcs run pathworks 5.1 and the win95
pcs are being installed with pathworks32, both sets use tcp/ip and decnet
protcols. the pcs map network
drives to an alphaserver 1000 running 7.1axp and pathworks 5.0f, they also
map drives and terminal sessions to a vax4105 running vms5.5-2h4 and
pathworks 4.1. Over periods of time greater than 15minutes but less than an
hour the wfwg pcs lock up completel
y and have to be rebooted, the win95 pcs remain unaffected. We currently
have 80 win95pcs and 50 wfwg pcs. We have checked for duplicate addresses
and network hub failures and are now at a loss for ideas???

The Answer is :

    PATHWORKS DOS/Windows V5.1 was released in September, 1994.
    If you are using the V5.1 product on currently available PCs
    configured with the latest Ethernet interfaces, the problem or
    problems you are enountering may be timing bugs that are only
    apparent on the newer, faster systems and smart network interfaces.
    The current released and supported verion of PATHWORKS
    DOS/Windows is V6.0a.
 
    You are moving in the right direction - upgrade the systems to Windows
    95 (or, Windows 98, or NT 4.0) and PATHWORKS 32 V7.1a.
 
    Note that PATHWORKS Server V4.1 is NOT Year 2000 ready.
 

  
     
     answer written or last revised on ( 13-AUG-1999 )
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