SAMBA and quotas on FreeBSD

[David Collier-Brown]

You wrote:
| The FreeBSD manual says that I can enable
| quotas and how to go about it, but I get the
| feeling this is just for shell accounts. Quotas
| would be useless in my situation if they did
| not work with SAMBA as well.

	Actually they work at a level ``below'' samba, so they
	will apply to all samba nfs, afs or whatever-fs users as well.

	What will not work well is the warning mechanism, which 
	sends text message to the ``logged-in user's tty'' to 
	tell them they are running low on quota.  As a result, they
	run out of space, but df reports there is space left...
	causing puzzlement.

	This was known to annoy NFS users in a previous life (:-))

--dave
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