Thank you both for responding. We are using both Windows 95 and NT clients, however, I have only seen this behaviour on Windows 95, and only a minute percentage of clients exhibit this behaviour. Kixtart should be able to find the 16 bit dlls because we have added the location of kixtart to each clients path through an entry in the autoexec.bat file. (eg: path =c:\windows;c:\windows\system;y:\util;y:\batch) where y:\util is the location of kix files. I have also tried copying the kix files down to the local hard drive, but the problem still exists. As soon as kix32 is called, it immediately hangs. How about the kxrpc.exe? Could this executable have anything to do with what's going on?

Many thanks for all your input.