The tree allows all the branches to communicate with each other. IPFW users have personal and shared drives, applications, mail and printers which are split among multiple servers.
Servers are branches of the tree which is for the most part, transparent to the users.
Since I've moved to GroupWise and the new network, when I log in on campus, my computer seems very sluggish. If it seems that your initial connection to the network takes longer than usual, there are some changes you can make to your Novell property settings to speed things up. See the following PDF document for complete details. Re-enter the new password for verification. No, do not report this, as it is a feature of Excel.