Auditing NT network users when accessing excel file

[kings23]

Does anyone know how to audit network users when accessing an excel file from a network share into a .txt file or something? I need to track users who access this excel file throughout the day to determine who is looking at it. Network is Windows NT 4.0 and I can see the users who have the file open in server manager but I can't continusously check that to see who has it open. Users access this excel file from a shortcut located on their desktops.
Thanks
Brian

 

[teresar]

Doing this with the network server can be a real resource hog. Have you considering adding an "on open" macro to the file in question? Possibly you could write it to capture the homedir path to a text file and keep adding it to it. Just a thought to keep resource hogging of your server down to a minimum.

 

[teresar]

FYI in case you don't care about server resources, it's on the server console, get to the file and right-click on it.

Security Tab - Advanced button - auditing and go from there.