network drive connections?

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We have a Dell Powervault we use to store files and we
share them to all our computers by mapping its drive as a
network drive on each of our computers. The problem is
that there are certain programs on the network drive
multiple people use and if we want to change those files
we need to have everyone who is using it disconnect. This
is fine (it's a small company) except lately we have found
that even after everyone seemingly closes a certain
program it will still complain that 1 or more user is
using it when we go to change it. So right now we just
restart killing the connection it thought was open,
however my question is: Is there a way to find out which
computer is connected to the server? Also can you remotely
end somebody's connection to it so that we don't always
have to restart if this problem occurs?

Let me know.
 
You have Windows 2000 Server? From there:

Start | Settings | Control Panel | Administrative Tools | Computer
Management.
Shared Folders | Open Files.

This will list all open files on the system, and which username is accessing
each. It will also allow you to close the connection to the file.

David
Stardate 3900.7
 
I bet you have XP clients connecting to this server don't
you? It is a problem with XP holding onto those shares
even after you close them. I have been struggling with
this issue for awhile. I have to manually get on the
server and close those shares. You can do that by:

Right Click My Computer/select Manage
Expand the Shared Folders selection and select Open Files.
You will see every single open connection from the network
to the server and see the path to the open file too.
Right click on the file you want to close and select close.

That person might have saved his work and gotten out of
the file way back when, but XP seems to make it think it's
still open.

Try this.
 
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