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Tool to display shares with users accessing it

Ivan Efimenko — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 01:22:16 GMT

Dear experts!

I want to know is there any tool that could display open files on the server with user who accessed it AND with share what was used to access the file. If you go to the “Computer Management\System Tools\Shared Folders\Open Files”, you find all the same, but without information about share used.
OR if there is a tool that could list all shares WITH user names who connected to it – it solve the problem too.

The problem is: We have several shares like:
C:\data
C:\data\app1
C:\data\app2

So, using Computer Management, its impossible to find WHICH share is exactly used, because in Shares we can see only the number of connected users and in Open Files we can see the files that are used BUT its unknown to which share user is connected.

Thank you very much in adva

Re: Tool to display shares with users accessing it

Joseph Loo — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 04:52:16 GMT

hi ivan,

which OS version r u on? i believe from windows 2000 onwards, there is a "Accessed By" column in Open Files which tells u which user is accessing what file.

regards.

Re: Tool to display shares with users accessing it

Guy Humphreys — Fri, 06 May 2005 06:02:11 GMT

Hi Ivan,

I am assuming you are on NT4 becuase as Joseph says you can do this easily in W2K and later.

I have found Dameware NT Utils to be an excellent package that will do what you need plus a whole host of other useful featuers as well

http://www.dameware.com/products/dntu/

They have a trial version so you can see if it fits your needs before parting with any money.

cheers
Guy

Re: Tool to display shares with users accessing it

Jon Finley — Fri, 06 May 2005 16:07:29 GMT

Quick and dirty script (get_shares.cmd)

REM ..: Script will list out the shares to a file, then parse each share to show WHO is attached.
echo ------------------------------------------------------ > cur_users.txt
date /t >> cur_users.txt
echo ------------------------------------------------------ >> cur_users.txt

net share > cur_shares.txt
for /f %%i in (cur_shares.txt) do (
net share %%i >> cur_users.txt
echo -------------------------------------------------------- >> cur_users.txt
)

Jon