Michael
thanks ...... but ..... I'm only a humble user who has programming skills
(and uses them to the betterment of my company) ...... heaven forbid the Tech
Support people would allow me access to the Server! .... if only!
My thinking is that if I try to delete a file, using File Explorer as any
other user would, and that file is in use by someone else on the network,
Windows would tell me "cannot delete the file .... it is in use". Now, to my
thinking, there must be a "flag" or an "attribute" somewhere on that file
which allows Windows to declare it as "in use" and its that "flag" or
"attribute" I'd lilke to grab (hoping that it somehow includes the name or
machine name of the user)
The Server Console solution is the simple one ..... but in my organisation
we don't do simple if we can avoid it!
Regards
Michael
"Michael D. Ober" wrote:
If all the file connections applications are coming across the network, you
can ask the OS who has the files open. To do this, go to the server console
and right click on My Computers. Select Manage. This expand the System
Tools -> Shared Folders tree. Look in "Open Files" and you will see is
using each file on the server. Unfortunately, this only works across the
network and not for machine local processes.
Mike Ober.
"mabond" <ma****@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A7**********************************@microsof t.com... Hi
I have a number of apps which are compiled to a shared network directory.
Users run the executables from this directory.
When rebuilding my apps I cannot complete the build if the executable is
in use.
I would like a simple app that would browse the file(s) in that network
directory and return the name/machinename of the person currently using
the file (so that I can ontact them and tell them to close the app)
Is that possible and does anyone have suggestions for where to start with
such a project
Regards
Michael Bond