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Answered by:. Archived Forums. File Services and Storage. Sign in to vote. Wednesday, April 15, PM. Hi Denis, Would you please check and verify that the users that you use to access the shared folder have adequate permission both on share and NTFS security permission on that shared folder on the that Windows Server computer?

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Hossein Narimani Rad The trouble is that an IOException could be thrown for many reasons other than a locked file. This is an old question, and all of the old answers are incomplete or wrong. I added a complete and correct answer. I know this is not quite the answer to the question as is, but some subset of developers who are looking at this for help might have this option: If you start the process that owns the lock with System.

Process you can. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Open, fileAccess, Fileshare. Message, e ; Thread. DixonD DixonD 6, 5 5 gold badges 29 29 silver badges 51 51 bronze badges. What if between return false and your attempt to open the file again something else snatches it up? Race conditions ahoy!

RenniePet The following page should be more helpful: msdn. What's the purpose of bit-masking here, if you compare the result to a constant? NET 4. BartoszKP Exactly, and thank you. Show 4 more comments. Unable to determine file locker. Length, resources, 0, null, 0, null ; if res!

Add Process. GetProcessById processInfo[i]. Failed to get size of result. Markus Safar 6, 5 5 gold badges 26 26 silver badges 42 42 bronze badges. Eric J. The only answer here that actually answers the OP question Will this work if the file is located on a network share and the file is possibly locked on another pc?

I just used this and it does work across the network. If anyone is interested, I created a gist inspired by this answer but simpler and improved with the properly formatted documentation from msdn.

I also drew inspiration from Raymond Chen's article and took care of the race condition. BTW I noticed that this method takes about 30ms to run with the RmGetList method alone taking 20ms , while the DixonD's method, trying to acquire a lock, takes less than 5ms