samba - Nov 2005 - Windows-style quota / "profile size too big" warning?

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).


-- 
Tomek
http://wpkg.org
WPKG - software deployment and upgrades with Samba

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.

On 11/15/05, Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>
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.
>
> Is it possible to do something like that with a Samba domain controller?
You can do this client-side with Group Policy; no server quota support
is needed.  (proquota, in the article you linked to, is apparently
just a client-side tool, and it looks like it was replaced by Group
Policy settings in Win2K and above.)

Start -> Run -> gpedit.msc
Go under User Configuration, Administrative Templates, System, User Profiles.
Double-click on "Limit profile size" and reivew the options there.

Josh Kelley