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| Close all files from the command line in Windows 2000 Server |
| Maintaining busy servers is far from easy. You not only have to keep them up and running, but you |
| also have to make sure the resources are available to users. However, there are times when you'll |
| want to close those resources--such as before doing a maintenance backup or other activity that |
| requires exclusive access to resources. |
| Several UI tools will close opened files. To use Computer Management to close open files, run the |
| management console and expand System Tools | Shared Folders | Open Files. Then, right-click an |
| individual file to close the file, or right-click the Open Files node to close them all at once. |
| You can automate this process by using a command line. Typing the following command will close |
| all files opened by network clients: |
| for /f "skip=4 tokens=1" %a in ('net files') do net files %a /close |
| This command executes the net files /close command on all files from the net files list. Because the |
| last entry on the net files list is not a file, you'll get an error message even though all files were |
| If you want to use net files in a batch file, you have to use a slightly different syntax: |
| for /f "skip=4 tokens=1" %%a in ('net files') do net files %%a /close |
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