>Hi Nadya,
>
>There is a great little shareware utility for Novell from SkySof Software (http://ic.net/~kusluski/) called FileSpy. Go to bottom of the long page to download.
>
>You can point to any network file and it will tell you who has it locked.
>
>Mike C.
>

I tried this utility, but unfortunately, on one file it gave me an error, and on another, that I can not scan it, since I don't have enough rights.

Thanks anyway.

>>Hi everybody,
>>
>>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?
>>2) Is there a way to find out, who locked the file?
>>3) Is it possible to release lock programmatically from workstation? We have Novell server and Windows 95 as workstations.
>>
>>Thanks a lot in advance.