reconnecting in Win98

If you have a decent budget, forget the LAN connection and look at wireless NICs and access points around the offices. Some of them will work for 500 feet, even inside, and the user never has to make any network cable connection. Look at the Cabletron and Intel solutions.

You might be able to do what you are trying to do by changing server settings, but it won't always work, particularly if you have a switch somewhere in the LAN.

check out this TID 2934130

http://support.novell.com/cgi-bin/search/search.pl?database_name=kb&type=HTML&docid=%03%81%03F147749%3a976908594%3a%20%28%20%22auto%20reconnect%22%20%2btime%20%29%20%20AND%20%28%20docGroup%20%3d%20%280%29%20%29%20%20AND%20%28%20productClass%20%3d%20%28%22NetWare%22%20%22Connectivity%20Products%22%29%20%29%20%20%07%01%00&byte_count=9830

Go to novell, support, knowledge base and search on "auto reconnect" + time. You may find other helpful info.

Default for watch dog is 15 minutes, so someone may have changed down to 1 minute. This is a security issue that your group needs to agree on - and then set on your servers.

These settings are the ones that may help you

Windows 95 and 98 Workstations
1.In the Control Panel, select Network, then select Novell NetWare Client.
2.Click Properties.
3.Select the Advanced Settings tab.
4.Verify or change the settings to the following:
Auto Reconnect Level=3 Auto Reconnect Timeout=default Handle Net Errors=ON Name Cache Level=0 Net Status Timeout=60 NetWare Protocol=NDS