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Monitor activity of a share

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by sameh fouad

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In my windows 2000 network, I have a big folder for mp3 files which is located on a file server and shared to all employees. They gain access to it and hear songs by winamp and realplayer. The question is how can I monitor the activity and usage of this share?

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by timwalsh

Another way (if you want to see how many users are connected or who is connected) is to open the Computer Management tool on the computer hosting the files. Under System Tools | Shared Folders, open Open Files. This will show you all shared files currently being accessed, adn which users are accessing them. This will allow you a real-time monitoring capability, but won't allow you any way to capture the data or monitor bandwidth usage.

by joseph moore

Answer2 is the best way, but if you want another way to see the connections to a particular machine, open a Command Prompt and type in
NETSTAT

That will give you all active connections at that moment to and from the machine.

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