[Samba] Problem sharing a directory which contains other mountpoints

[John Drescher]

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 10:07 AM, ROHAUT Sébastien (EXT OSIATIS)
<ext.osiatis.sebastien.rohaut at sncf.fr> wrote:
> Hi,
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> Here is my problem :
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> On a server we have a directory, /data, shared with Samba. In this directory, we have two mountpoints : mp300 which contains a 300GB filesystem, and mp500 which contains 500GB filesystem.
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> So we have :
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> |----data
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>      |-------mp300 => 300GB
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>      |-------mp500 => 500GB
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> and /data is shared wich Samba.
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> On Windows, if we try to put many files, a example 30GB, in /data/mp300 (or /data/mp500), Windows says there isn't enough free space : it reports the free space on /data, which is on the root directory, so it reports only free space of the root shared directory, and it doesn't see the free 300GB ou 500GB of the mountpoints included.
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> Is it possible to make Samba report free space of each subfolders (mounted), and not from the root shared directory ?
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Mount them in windows as 2 different drives or use dfs on the samba
server (not 100% sure if that works).

John