Who Has File Open

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!

Hi,

I have a VBA in Access solution. If you are interested in it send me an email to [email protected]

Rich

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.

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

Perhaps Mr. dieckman could help this fellow out.

http://forums.vb-world.net/showthrea...hreadid=141495

Hey T-Bone, check out this link http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...hreadid=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.

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.

Back to the original question:

I posted a project on a similar subject in this thread

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.