Who Has File Open

[Zoplax]

Hi all, I'm trying to create VB code which will tell me what user on an NT 4 domain currently has a particular file open.

Can someone point me to or show me an example?

File Manager (Winfile) in NT 4 allows you to see who has a file open by first clicking on File => Properties for a particular file, then clicking an "Open By" button which shows who has a file open and in what mode (Read, Write).

Thanks in advance for any help!

[richard dieckman]

Hi,

I have a VBA in Access solution. If you are interested in it send me an email to rdieckman@yankelovich.com

Rich

[T-Bone]

Question: Why do people do that?

I am quite interested to hear if somone has got various solutions to problems, even if they are in other flavours/languages such as VBA, ASP, etc.

Why not share your information on these <i>forums</i> so that we cann all benefit from your insight.

[Hack]

I totally agree T-Bone. It defeats the purpose of this forum when information and code is shared privately.

[Hack]

Perhaps Mr. dieckman could help this fellow out.

http://forums.vb-world.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=141495

[Hack]

Hey T-Bone, check out this link http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=141495

Apparently not only did Mr. dieckman chose to not share his code, his email address isn't even valid. Remember the name richard dieckman for the future.

[T-Bone]

Oh dear, what a riot!

Hack, this is quite a humerous situation. Many thanks for the enlightenment, keeping in mind though that every event 'fired' on this planet (whether it be a humans actions or otherwise), there's always some reason behind it, even if it sometimes is a rather lousy one.

Then again, perhaps Mr. Richard Dieckman (we all know what 'Richard' is generally shortened to...) is just an alias for someone who wants to remain anonymous, uncontactable, & unsociable, and thinks himself too 'important' to share any of his/her stuff with the rest of the public domain.

Nonetheless, I'm sure there's some reason behind it. Whatever it may be, good-luck to 'em.

Alternately, we could possibly try to email Zoplax and see if they managed to contact the 'uncontactable' Mr. Dieckman.

[Frans C]

Back to the original question:

I posted a project on a similar subject in this thread (http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=137661)

It does what you need, but only runs on NT, you need admin or account operator rights, and can only give information on files located on a NT server.