Comments on: Windows Server can’t see who has share in use

By: kevinbeaver

kevinbeaver — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:10:25 +0000

If you have a limited number of users couldn’t you just logon to their machines and do a ‘net use’ and see who has it open? You could use PsExec to do this remotely.

By: wimble

wimble — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:20:59 +0000

I have tried Netstat -an and all it shows me is the IP of the server and the port it is using (445 and 13X) and then the IP of the pc’s connected. I know i have a bunch of people connected to this server. It has approx. 10 other shares and they are all accessing different shares. That is where my issues is. I need to see who has what share open, not who has a connection open on the server.
This share thing is what is making it hard. You just can’t see who has a share in use at the server.
One other item, I only have a limited amount of users that even have access to this share. Does anyone know of a PSEXEC command that i can run on each individual users machine to see what share’s they have in use? I can’t look at mapped drives becuase some don’t map it, they just browse to it which in return will also mark the share in use.
Thanks,

By: kevinbeaver

kevinbeaver — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:46:28 +0000

You could run netstat -an |more from a command prompt and see who's connected on the NetBIOS ports (445 and 13x) ....it may take a while if you have a lot of users but you could use that to narrow things down.

By: wimble

wimble — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:59:40 +0000

Thanks Kevin,
Problem is though, that the end user doesn’t have any files in use yet when the share is connected too. My problem is that someone is mapping a drive letter to the share and then just leaving it at that and not accessing any files. Without a file open, how can i see who has the share in use?