Thanks, Sergey.

>>Hi everybody,
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>>Sometimes I have a situation, when the file is locked, but nobody uses it in the moment. So, my questions are:
>>1) Do you know, what may cause it?
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>Besides the network problems, if any, there is only one reason I know about - people turning off there computers w/o properly logging off.
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Yes, I thought about it too. It just seems to happen too often lately...

>>2) Is there a way to find out, who locked the file?
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>There're a few programms you can use to check it. The two I used called whohas and fileuse. You can find them on the internet. I like whohas better but for some reason it doesn't work on the fast computers. Unfortunatelly both those programms requred at least operators right to the drive maybe even Admin.

I'll try to find them, though if you have link available, it would be helpful :)

>>3) Is it possible to release lock programmatically from workstation? We have Novell server and Windows 95 as workstations.
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>To do that you have to kill connection that has this file open and I think only Admin can do it.
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In our case we had to re-boot this particular workstation...

Thanks again.