Peter,

Thanks again. I have seen files left marked as "in use" when no one was using them. This seems to have been a sporadic hiccup by the NOS. I just saw it yesterday (at a different customer) and was able to clear it for a single file by renaming the file in Win Explorer and renaming it back to its original name.

It seems different than this wholesale foul up that seems to include renaming of shared folders. If (when?) I get a solution, I'll post it here.

Larry

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>Larry, though I personally never have heard of this, it is true that in circumstances files won't be released by NT4. I mean : nobody in the system, but NT having the files still open, resulting in a necessary Clear Resources at the server. This obviously could (should) lead of NT having the filehandles obtained. And possibly your network tech doesn't have this feeling out of the blue ...
>Sadly, I never learned what is (was) the cause of this, and I recall it only from some two years ago (users calling that they couldn't get exclusive access to files when everybody was out of the system). It would be my guess that some patch exists for NT4-Server, and that by now every customer of mine applied that (without us knowing). Or they switched to W2K etc ...
>I'd say, look for this patch (and don't get confused with a similar patch for WTS, because that surely exists ... You don't use WTS do you ?
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