>I have a problem updating or making changes to an app when some user has it open. Some users open the app and leave it running all day regardless if they use it or not. Is there a way to capture their ip or name on the network? The server is not mine and I do not have rights to kick them off. The phone is my way of informing them. Also can I institute some global timeout of nonuse that would exit the app automatically? Wondering.....

Many of us have a small VFP EXE that launches the app. Part of the code in the EXE is to look in a specific subdirectory on the server for a new version of the APP. If there is a new one, the EXE copies it the application install directory. Then runs it. That way I do not have to be there, chase down rogue users, go back to workstations to do re-installs, etc. All I have to do is copy the new APP to the server directory.