When A Share is not a Share

Strange problem I'm trying to help with. Perhaps this is just a windows
function I've never seen before?

Problem is this... user's computer locked up while working in a file. Now
she's getting an error that the file is in use and must be re-opened. Easy
enough. I was going to try and unlock the file, but I can't find the file
from my workstation. On the user's station I was able to copy the original
file, delete the old file and rename the copy, but it still says its in use.

She is accessing the file as \\server\share\folder\filename.xls. If I open
this on my station, I see nothing (could be security rights). However when I
look at the physical server, there is no share with that name, even if I
look at all shares, including hidden shares in computer management. I
searched the whole hard drive for filename.xls and its not there.

I know you can set out a virtual folder mapping using DFS, but can you
virtualize a share from a different server?

Thanks,
Brian

on the server, run net share and on the client, run net view \\servername.
post back with the result.

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"Brian" <reply2me@thenewsgroup> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Strange problem I'm trying to help with. Perhaps this is just a windows
> function I've never seen before?
>
> Problem is this... user's computer locked up while working in a file. Now
> she's getting an error that the file is in use and must be re-opened. Easy
> enough. I was going to try and unlock the file, but I can't find the file
> from my workstation. On the user's station I was able to copy the original
> file, delete the old file and rename the copy, but it still says its in
> use.
>
> She is accessing the file as \\server\share\folder\filename.xls. If I open
> this on my station, I see nothing (could be security rights). However when
> I look at the physical server, there is no share with that name, even if I
> look at all shares, including hidden shares in computer management. I
> searched the whole hard drive for filename.xls and its not there.
>
> I know you can set out a virtual folder mapping using DFS, but can you
> virtualize a share from a different server?
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
>

"Robert L. (MS-MVP)" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote
> on the server, run net share and on the client, run net view \\servername.
> post back with the result.

Results match exactly with what I see in Computer Management.

Server:
Share name Resource Remark
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
MsOLAPRepository$ C:\Program Files\Microsoft Analysis
Services\Bin
IPC$ Remote IPC
C$ C:\ Default share
ADMIN$ C:\WINDOWS Remote Admin
20070618_1 C:\temp\Upload\ExpenseSystem\20070618_1
DocumentLibraryClient C:\Program Files\SharePoint Portal
Server\ClientDrop\Languages\ENU
Caching disabled
IntranetDocuments C:\Inetpub\Intranet\Documents Caching
disabled
PROD_C C:\
TASKS C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Project Server 2003\IIS
Virtual Root\TASKS
Upload C:\temp\Upload
WWW C:\Inetpub\Intranet\WWW Caching disabled
WWW_PROD C:\Inetpub\wwwroot
The command completed successfully.

Workstation:

Share name Type Used as Comment
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
20070618_1 Disk
DocumentLibraryClient Disk
IntranetDocuments Disk
PROD_C Disk
TASKS Disk
Upload Disk
WWW Disk
WWW_PROD Disk (UNC)
The command completed successfully.