>>I am sure there are many Windows utilities to tell you who has a data table open on the file server?
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>>I does not need to be a Foxpro program, just any good program for Windows NT.
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>>Any recommendations?
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>This question came up on a network which has replaced its Novell server with an NT server. They didn't know how to do this. So I appreciate the tips.
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>Is there anyone else bothered by the fact that this essential function is a standard feature in Netware (from the server console) but seems to be rather arcane in NT?

It's not - if you are willing to go to the Server console, there are utilities that ship with NT (Server Administrator, which is always installed and available to system administrators from the Start Menu/Administrative Tools (Common) menu point, and NetWatcher, which is part of the NT Resource Kit.)

The discussions have revolved around programmatically accessing the information from a user application. There's an extensive APIthat will do this, but it requires a good deal of work to implement in a VFP-only program (it can be done, but it requires using a lot of API calls to build and access buffers and structures). There are third party solutions, and solutions that use additional tools like Paul Tatavu's POINTERS class, which has an OCX that does the work of handling the structures, already here on VFP. it can be done using a pure VFP solution (I'm playing around with using my CLSHEAP.PRG library to do it, but I'm working on other things at the moment, and haven't really put a great deal of effort into it.)

Doing this programmatically under Novell is at least as difficult, requiring either a third party library, or using Noivell's API libraries (which now require you to use Novell's Client32).