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Greg
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 Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2006 7:29 am Post subject: How to find out who is using a file on the server |
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I am working remotely and I want to take exclusive use of a file on our Windows 2000 Server but at least one other person has it open.
What service or program do I use to determine who is using that file right now. I am used to Netware, where I could go into ConsoleOne and see what files are open by user or what users have a particular file open.
Does Windows have the same ability? I can't believe it doesn't.
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Daniel Crichton
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| Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2006 1:30 pm Post subject: Re: How to find out who is using a file on the server |
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"Greg" <someone@microsoft.com> wrote in message news:efSmfK2YGHA.1192@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
| Quote: | I am working remotely and I want to take exclusive use of a file on our
Windows 2000 Server but at least one other person has it open.
What service or program do I use to determine who is using that file right
now. I am used to Netware, where I could go into ConsoleOne and see what
files are open by user or what users have a particular file open.
Does Windows have the same ability? I can't believe it doesn't.
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Right click on My Computer, choose Manage. Go to Shared Folders in the left
tree, and then Open files. You'll see a list of files in the right hand pane
with all the details on who has them open, and you can close a connection to
a file if you need to.
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Greg
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| Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2006 2:36 pm Post subject: Re: How to find out who is using a file on the server |
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That is the answer I've been looking for for a long time! Thanks very much!
Greg
| Quote: | Daniel Crichton<msnews@worldofspack.co.uk> 4/19/2006 5:30 AM
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"Greg" <someone@microsoft.com> wrote in message news:efSmfK2YGHA.1192@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
| Quote: | I am working remotely and I want to take exclusive use of a file on our
Windows 2000 Server but at least one other person has it open.
What service or program do I use to determine who is using that file right
now. I am used to Netware, where I could go into ConsoleOne and see what
files are open by user or what users have a particular file open.
Does Windows have the same ability? I can't believe it doesn't.
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Right click on My Computer, choose Manage. Go to Shared Folders in the left
tree, and then Open files. You'll see a list of files in the right hand pane
with all the details on who has them open, and you can close a connection to
a file if you need to.
Dan |
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Daniel Crichton
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| Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2006 5:41 pm Post subject: Re: How to find out who is using a file on the server |
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"Greg" <someone@microsoft.com> wrote in message news:uGaS$t6YGHA.3880@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
| Quote: | That is the answer I've been looking for for a long time! Thanks very
much!
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Strangely enough I found that out only a few weeks ago when I had to find
out why I couldn't replace a COM DLL on my server, prior to this I'd not
needed to replace it for a few years and back then I was on NT4 where it was
easy enough to find this same thing in the Server control panel applet :)
Dan |
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