samba - Sep 2005 - Roaming profiles not supporting quota

Dear Group,

I'm using samba 3.x as a PDC, and I'm using linux system quota v2 for
samba.

Here is my problem: if a user copies a big file to the desktop (bigger than the
quota set for that
user), when he logs off, the profile wont syncronize with the server with the
message "disk full".

Is there a way to let the WinXp client to understand how much space is available
also for the local
profile that must be syncronized later with the server?

In other words: how can i manage to solve this problem not having to make
mandatory profiles? I
want the users to do whatever they want with the quota i gave them.

Thanks a lot,

Lorenzo
                           
                              
                              
                              
                              
                           
   
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Allori Lorenzo schrieb:
> Here is my problem: if a user copies a big file to the desktop (bigger than
the quota set for that
> user), when he logs off, the profile wont syncronize with the server with
the message "disk full".
> 
> Is there a way to let the WinXp client to understand how much space is
available also for the local
> profile that must be syncronized later with the server?
> 
> In other words: how can i manage to solve this problem not having to make
mandatory profiles? I
> want the users to do whatever they want with the quota i gave them.
> 
Limiting the size of roaming profiles is a good idea anyway.
You can use policies to move some folders (e.g. the Desktop
folder) out of the profile (e.g. into a subdirectory of the user's
homedirectory).
And you can use policies to tell windows to enforce a size limit
for the roamin profile. (NB: for replication to work you will need windows
to limit the profile size to half the quota size. Of course, you
will need to have separate quota for profile directory and user home
directory.)

http://www.pcc-services.com/custom_poledit.html looks like
a nice starting point for using profiles on samba.

Kind regards,
Wolfgang Ratzka
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