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

Tomasz Chmielewski mangoo at wpkg.org
Tue Nov 15 18:29:56 GMT 2005


Jeremy Allison schrieb:
> 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.

yeah why not, just tell me what do I have to capture (and how?) and I'll 
try to do it.


-- 
Tomek


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