samba - May 1999 - questions about HD size; and daemon.

Hi,

I m using the 2.0.23 and i m wondering if i should throw away all my
WNTSERVER! :-} 
(because samba is now on some point better than MS$ themselves...)

But:
-"max disk size" is "global" and should be (to my mind)
"share". In fact we
could allocate 100Mb for one user, 50 Mb for another and they will see only
this size.
ie: ou users have a quota of 50 Mb but they see a 4Gb disk : they says :
"hey i want more!". Moreover when they do a "property" under
their win95
they see all the disk wich is not obvious if they have a quota limitation...
In the case of the mac client using DAVE , it is a big pb if the disk they
see is more than 2Gb!!

-why the smbd daemon does not run as <user> and run as root (perhaps it is
unsecure to ask for that?) but it will be more easy for admin to see who is
connected (ps) ?

-I don t really understand why with DAVE we can not use NTFS for
"fstype".
Does samba implement "Streams"? I suspect that, as streams are not
implemented , DAVE can't use <filename:AFP_xxx> which are the NTFS
streams
used for resource fork and so.
(http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q147/4/38.asp
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q185/7/22.ASP
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q106/6/63.asp)

many thanks for responses in advance
Laurent BARDI 	Ingenieur Systemes & Reseaux 
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
INSTITUT  de PHARMACOLOGIE et de BIOLOGIE STRUCTURALE
Tel : 05-61-17-54-39             http://www.ipbs.fr/
Fax : 05-61-17-59-94             lolo@ipbs.fr
CNRS-IPBS 205 Route de Narbonne 31400 TOULOUSE FRANCE 

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Laurent Bardi wrote:
> 
> -why the smbd daemon does not run as <user> and run as root (perhaps
it is
> unsecure to ask for that?) but it will be more easy for admin to see who is
> connected (ps) ?
> 
Well, because it accesses other shares apart from \homes, and it changes
effective UID depending on this and settings in smb.conf. It is quite
easy to admin, though, because we have smbstatus command :-)

As for the rest of questions, maybe some more experienced guru will
anwer ? ;-)

Michal