I'm developing a group database, and yesterday I was going to do maintenance on it, but a user left it open and left their office all afternoon.

Short of pulling the plug on their locked XP machine, is there any way to kick users off?

 

IF you are on the same network and you are running XP you could always remote into his machine using the remote desktop connection tool to log him off and close the access session.

 

I'm not a system admin. I'm making an operating plan model for my finance group (of which I a member), but I work in a big company with a separate IT support group. True, I could request they be logged off, but half the people in the group don't save their work!

Basically, I just want them out of my Access model.

 

Sorry, dunno the answer to your question, but if you haven't done so already, do a search for it in the newsgroup archives:

http://groups.google.com/

The archives are full of great info and save my ass daily.

 

OH yea, If you have admin rights, you can go through DOS to connect to the machine and kill the process.

 

actually, i figured out another way. in my main form, i have a timer event that opens and closes a hidden form every 5 minutes. that form has a text box bound to a table that i can type user names in. if that text box matches the current user name, all forms are closed.

 

slick