[Samba] Repost : Incorrect Reporting of Drive Space from the Windows 2000 Explorer on SAMBA shares

Sanjiv Bawa sbawa at tabmaster.com
Wed Jun 12 06:36:02 GMT 2002


There is a parameter in the smb.conf file that you can use to feed it the
correct space left.

I can't remember what it is, but if you search for drive space in the doc
for smb.conf you will find it.

-----Original Message-----
From: samba-admin at lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-admin at lists.samba.org]On
Behalf Of Drew.Zeller at statcan.ca
Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 7:58 AM
To: samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: [Samba] Repost : Incorrect Reporting of Drive Space from the
Windows 2000 Explorer on SAMBA shares


Repost of question.

> -----Original Message-----
>
> Hi,
>
> In Windows 2000 I have noticed that when you connect to a SAMBA share and
> use the Windows 2000 explorer, the properties for the drive shows the free
> space as the maximum capacity of the drive and that the used space is 0.
> This incorrect reporting of the drive space is always the same, no matter
> how full the disk of the SAMBA share is.
>
> Has anyone seen this before.  Anyone have any ideas if there is a work
> around.
>
> The SAMBA servers I tested with are running SAMBA 2.2.3a on HP-UX 11.00
>
>
> Thanks in advance.

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