[Samba] Windows-style quota / "profile size too big" warning?

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Tue Nov 15 18:04:33 GMT 2005


On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 04:09:29PM +0100, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> With Windows domain controllers with when the profile size is too big 
> (and there are limits appled), when the user logs out, he/she gets a 
> warning, and a list of files, sorted from the biggest, to the smallest.
> 
> To get an idea how it looks like, here's a screenshot:
> 
> http://www.windowsitpro.com/Files/5057/Screen_03.gif
> http://www.windowsitpro.com/Windows/Article/ArticleID/5057/5057.html
> 
> 
> Is it possible to do something like that with a Samba domain controller?
> 
> With quota enabled on a Samba server, user just gets a small error 
> window, and has to scroll down and read a lot of text to understand what 
> happened (and in the end he/she will probably not notice/understand that 
> the profile wasn't uploaded back to the server, which means some data 
> may be lost).

Any chance of sending in a network trace when this message is
received ? We need to see how the client is getting this message
in order to be able to do the same.

Jeremy.


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