- #HOW TO KNOW WHAT APP TO OPEN FILES INSTALL#
- #HOW TO KNOW WHAT APP TO OPEN FILES PC#
- #HOW TO KNOW WHAT APP TO OPEN FILES WINDOWS#
#HOW TO KNOW WHAT APP TO OPEN FILES WINDOWS#
The first time you run the client Windows app, you guessed it, Openfilesini.xml file will be created. You should start the service to see the XML files getting created.
Note, the default place for the service to load the INI XML file is c:\. Once the OpenFilesini.xml file is setup properly, start the Windows service. Don't forget to add the domain user to the Power users group of the network server you want to see the open files on. Locate the Openfilesini.xml file and edit it so that the output directory and the network server(s) you want is/are correct. Then Services and Applications, then Services. You will be prompted to enter the domain user and password. Run installUtil ( c:\windows.\installutil openfilesServer.exe). Change directories to get to where you saved the Windows service. It is usually a good idea to create a services directory. So copy the Windows service to a local drive on a network server. It can usually be found in c:\windows\\framework\v\installutil.exe ( Note v should be replaced with whatever version of the. You need to use the installutil program that comes with the.
#HOW TO KNOW WHAT APP TO OPEN FILES INSTALL#
Next you need to install the Windows service. This domain user is used for the login for the Windows service. The Solutionįirst you need a domain user that is a member of the Power Users group on whatever network server you are interested in. Note the source is provided, you are welcome to do better than this. If you have a lot of open files, the XML files can get big. So yes, this means you will have 60 files per server. The Windows client will always try to read the XML file from the previous minute. The Windows service will write out one file per server per minute. It allows you to query the open files on a network server assuming you have the correct rights on the server. Note the openfiles.exe is something that is provided by Microsoft. The network share that the XML files get written to can also be anywhere as long as both the Windows service and the Windows client both point to the same place. The Windows service uses an XML INI file to know which network servers it should be querying. Note the Windows service can run on any network server that has the openfiles.exe. Then there is a Windows client that reads the XML file and displays the servers and open files. The Windows service writes out the list of open files to an XML file on a network share. The Windows service is logged in as a domain user that has been added to the Power Users group of the network server you want to see the open files on. If you can not find this program then you are out of luck. The openfiles.exe can be found at c:\windows\system32\openfiles.exe. You have a Windows service that calls an existing program called openfiles.exe. There is setup to get this solution to work. Overview of the Solutionįirst, you need to know that there isn't some magic solution. The second option is to use the programs I wrote so that help desk or release coordinators or whoever can see who has what app/file open. It is important to note here that I do not have administrator rights, which is why I came up with this solution.
#HOW TO KNOW WHAT APP TO OPEN FILES PC#
If you are an administrator on your own PC you can try this out just to see what I am talking about. If you meet these requirements, then you can just open the computer management (right click on My Computer then Manage). The first is you need to be a network administrator and have rights on the network server that the share folder resides on. So you really have two options to discover who has the application open. net app on the network share has an open file lock on it. NET app is run locally on the user's PC, a. NET apps on a network server (Part 2)Įven though a. You may want to read the first two articles:
This article presents a solution I came up with, to solve figuring out who is in the application so you can ask them to get out. When you want to release a new version you need to make sure everyone is out of the application.
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