file locked for editing

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larry

Every time I try to open a certain excel file it say file
is locked for editing by certain user. I can open it in
read-only mode. The user that is suuposedly got this file
locked is not even logged on to the Neteware server where
the file is. Any ideas?
 
When this is a single user, two common solutions are to clean up the windows
temp folder and to reboot the pc.

But since it's a network drive, you might try having the server rebooted (just a
guess).
 
I had a similar problem using windows 2000 and excel 2000
that rebooting or cleaning the temp file would not solve.
I contacted microsoft techinical support and they advised
me to apply the following patch:

Article 329170 "MS02-070: Flaw in SMB Signing May Permit
Group Policy to Be Modified"
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-
US;329170

It seemed to work, for the week or so that I continued to
use windows 2000 prior to switching to XP. I haven't had
the same problem with XP.

Good luck.

Murray Williams
 
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