Peter

Did you see Ed's response earlier on this thread. Sounds like their is a patch or hack for this.

Thanks,

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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>Peter
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