Did you enable portfast or use the 'host' macro to set the user ports on this switch? I have seen this, but it was in a situation where the user machines had there IPX frame type set to auto. In that case the users machine would boot up, try and autodetect the IPX frame type in use on the segment, but since the interface wasn't forwarding yet, he wouldn't see any IPX frames, and hence it would default to a frame type other than what was actually being used on the network. These machiones also had the classic DHCP problems for the same reason. But, since you have hardcoded the IPX frame type, I'd suspect that maybe he does his GNS, and if the port isn't forwarding, he just doesn't get a response, and on a Windows95 machine, it will then go to a secondary login (if there is one) or just go straight to the desktop. If IP isn't a problem, are they using static IP addresses?
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