Mark, I think there's a way to do it from smb.conf but I've used Solaris quotas with no problems. Just be sure to build samba with "--with-quotas" and then use the OS quota system. HTH
Spike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello Samba list, > > I have a customer that really needs to have its Samba shares hard-limited to > a > certain size. > We migrated them from Novell Netware 5 to Whitebox Enterprise Linux 3 with > Samba 3 with LDAP backend. > We've set UNIX acls on the share folders and subfolders, since they have > specific wishes that cannot be covered with standard permissions (multiple > groups should be able to read and/or write) > The need for this and the share size limit comes from their Novell > experiences, with which this is all possible. > I've been able to cover all their 'access' wishes, but the share size > limitation remains. > The shares are all now simply on one partition. > > As far as I've been able to research, there is no possibility to really set > a harddisk limit on a share (or a directory). > Am I correct? Have to admit that I was surprised by this, I expected that > this would be possible, to me it occurs as a logical wish / need for many > server admins. > There seem to have been attempts for Samba 2.x but they are not > available/working for 3.x.?! > > As far as I can judge, user and group quotas will not help me here, they > have a lot of different groups and users are in multiple groups. > All users have "Domain Users" as their primary group > > How can I achieve the (more or less) the same result? > I thought of repartitioning the drive and placing every share on its own > partition. > Does this make sense? I need to be able to adjust the sizes easily. > Does LVM help me here? > > Can I somehow maybe limit the size of a directory instead? > Are there any other mechanisms that I've overseen or does somebody know any > workarounds. > > I know, a lot of questions, but they remains unanswered after reading a lot > of docs (including Samba 3 by Example, great book John) > So any feedback will really be appreciated > > TIA > > Mark van den Bogaard > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
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