Hi there,
Let me first tell you our setup....
I'm at a school (actually 2 but who is counting) with approx 1000 students
in a NT domain. In the past we have had problems with students consuming more
diskspace than was intended. First we tried to enforce a quota using kix, but
the little 'rats' soon figured a way around that. To overcome that we
started using an Linux setup with quota's in place and using samba to share
their home folders.
This works quite well, except for one thing....
The quota is set up with a 5000kB soft and a 6000kB hard limit, I've
allready fiddled around with the grace period setting it from 7 days to 2 hours
to 0 hours.
I know samba has little or nothing to do with quota's but it does cause me a
problem I'm afraid.
Whenever a user goes over his quota they get a message saying something like
"Disk Full". Nothing wrong with that off course but the catch is that
samba keeps a lock on the file wich couses the problem, and when it was a file
copy, on the copied file ass well.
Here is a screendum from a smbstatus screen:
Locked files:
Pid DenyMode R/W Oplock Name
--------------------------------------------------
25468 DENY_ALL WRONLY EXCLUSIVE+BATCH /home/pkn/Kopie (4) van db1.mdb
Fri Sep 21 08:52:18 2001
25468 DENY_WRITE RDONLY EXCLUSIVE+BATCH /home/pkn/Kopie (2) van db1.mdb
Fri Sep 21 08:52:18 2001
Here the file to be copied is "Kopie (2) van db1.mdb" as "Kopie
(4) van db1.mdb" . Both files cannot be handled by explorer anymore. I.e.
it can not be deleted or opened (by Acces in this case). At the moment I've
got a cronjob in place restarting samba every morning to remove these locks.
But the I cannot escape the thought that there must be a better way to solve
this problem.
regard
Peter Kaagman
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