Can't delete LDB file

[charles_e_hale]

Here's a problem for the not-so-novice techies.

We have many users and applications opening a database for read and
read+write. Occasionally, the LDB file is locked.

Nothing shows up as having it open. Net File returns nobody having it
open. Computer Management shows nobody having it open.

I have tried some of the utilities that guarantee they can unlock a
file. Nothing works.

This is a production server, so we cannot reboot it anytime we want.
And we rely on this database for a large portion of our work.

Any ideas on how to delete the lock file?

Thanks

 

[Joan Wild]

A network administrator should be able to delete the ldb file without a
reboot of the server.

Every user should have delete permissions on the folder where the mdb is
locate; without that permission the last person out isn't able to delete the
ldb file.

 

[charles_e_hale]

Joan,

Thanks, but it is not a permissions issue. I am the network
administrator...

The System process had it locked for no good reason. I had to
download procexp.exe in order to unlock it.