>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>Can anybody help me to solve a small mystery. I have several users on network. One of them may edit a Foxpro table (2.5 or 5.0) and ,therefore, have a record locked. What tools do I have to find out who has this record locked?
>>>
>>>Thanks in advance.
>>>Igor Gelin, system developer
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>>You can e.g. add one more field to this table. When user RLOCK() the record s/he also will fill this field with UserId or MachineName etc.
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>Hi Ed,
>
>The problem is that I got huge and very old project. It is infeasible to add new fields. Moreover Foxpro able to locks records automatically and I don't have to lock records programatically. What I need is a way to uncover the user whom locked the record without changing the project.

Igor,

Depending on the network environment, there are tools that you can use to determine who has a lock (not what record), on a specific file. In Novell, it's a little cryptic, but you can tell if it is a record or file lock, and who has it on what table. This can all be done from MONITOR on the system console. I'm not sure about NT, but I do know that to determine who is even using a file in NT, you need to have the system on an NTFS partition.

HTH,

Rod Lewis