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

Gémes Géza geza at kzsdabas.sulinet.hu
Wed Nov 16 20:07:48 GMT 2005


Tomasz Chmielewski írta:

> Josh Kelley schrieb:
>
>> On 11/15/05, Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 08:44:30PM +0100, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
>>>
>>>> hmm don't know.
>>>>
>>>> I just saw a similar window here where I work, and searched the
>>>> internet
>>>> for something that looks similar.
>>>>
>>>> But AFAIK, we don't install any 3rd party tools here, just a pure
>>>> XP SP2.
>>>
>>>
>>> Hmmm. If it's a group policy option we don't currently support it.
>>
>>
>>
>> It's Group Policy, but it's implemented entirely on the client.  I
>> just tested it out against a Samba PDC with no server-side quotas
>> enabled, and it works.
>>
>> Setting each computer's group policy without an Active Directory is
>> harder, but it's still doable.  (You could do it manually in
>> gpedit.msc, or try using a tool like Nitrobit, or try setting the
>> registry keys manually or with a script.)
>
>
> could you elaborate some more about it (how you did it etc.)?
>
> if it's just a couple of registry entries, it would be easy to add on
> each client even without Group Policy.
>
>
It is doable with the NT4 policy editor as well using the adm files
included with Win2k server. You just need to create an NTConfig.pol file
on the root of your netlogon share.

Good Luck,

Geza


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