Nicolas Ecarnot
2004-Nov-17 14:23 UTC
[Samba] Limit the size of file sended to samba server
Hi, I'm looking for a way to prevent users to send BIG files to a samba server. After some research, I discovered that : - There are option in smb.conf that deal with quota (get/set quota commands), but the quotas deal with the total amount of data you put in a partition (a file system), not the size of one file - There is an option to limit the amount of octets sent in a samba session, but I doubt this has to deal with my question - Some advice me to modify the script that launches the smb server, (that is launched by root) to add a 'ulimit' command before the launch. This may work, but I don't know if this command will act on this script/environnement alone, or will act on everything is done by root on this server (that would not fit) So, I can't believe I'm the first guy to have this problem, with users sending huge MPEGs in the boss's financial subdirectories :o) How would you do that (except napalm) ? -- Nicolas Ecarnot