SAMBA digest 2274

Steve Litt slitt at troubleshooters.com
Tue Oct 19 14:37:00 GMT 1999


At 09:41 AM 10/19/1999 +1000, you wrote:
>On Tue, 19 Oct 1999 00:55:21 +1000, samba at samba.org wrote:
>
>>> Hi 
>>> Q1
>>> I need to be able to set a maximum size to the users home directories
>>> so that a disk full or similar message appears. Can this be done ?
>>> Users home directories are all  mapped to the same drive letter.
>>> RH6.0 with Win 9X clients
>>
>>Look at setting up quotas in Linux. Quotas will let you set a max size.
>Unless I misunderstood, quotas let you set a max usage for a partition ..
>which isn't the same thing at all.

How bout using server side automation. When the guy connects to [homes],
the preexec= command takes a directory, and if it has two many bytes it
disconnects the person.

Steve Litt



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