Server 2003 R2 Quotas

[FN-GM]

Hi,

I have just set a quota on the students home areas. I am using the Server 2003 R2 quota management.

When a user clicks there home area the left hand pane shows the remaining storage on the server not the actual quota. Is it possible to show this?

Thanks

[DMcCoy]

Hi,

I have just set a quota on the students home areas. I am using the Server 2003 R2 quota management.

When a user clicks there home area the left hand pane shows the remaining storage on the server not the actual quota. Is it possible to show this?

Thanks

Not with any folder quotas, no.

[FN-GM]

It did it the old way in server 2003.

[DMcCoy]

It did it the old way in server 2003.

Thats because they are the owner based file system quotas, the FSRM users a new filter driver for it's quotas. That means that clients will only ever see ones created with the old system.

[FN-GM]

is there any other way to display the quota, possibly a script?

[CyberNerd]

It did it the old way in server 2003.

It does using Samba/Linux as well.
Maybe you would consider using Samba as a homedirectory server. There are a number of advantages to samba which I listed here:
New Backup System Advice

Monkeyx has written a brief howto for snapshotting volumes, and I added my setup documentation here:
http://www.edugeek.net/wiki/index.ph..._Homedirectory

[FN-GM]

We will be sticking with Windows, thanks anyway

[Michael]

From memory I think it's to do with how you map your home directories.

\\SERVERNAME\USER$

This should correctly display the quota.

\\SERVERNAME\PUBLIC\HOME\USER

This won't display the quota correctly.

Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 do a much better job at displaying quotas using either method. Just another XP blip I think.

[powdarrmonkey]

Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 do a much better job at displaying quotas using either method. Just another XP blip I think.

Smells like a 'buy vista' blip to me...

[Michael]

Smells like a 'buy vista' blip to me...

Yes and I would agree. Vista does do 'some' things better than XP, but it could easily be fixed with a patch for certain. Quotas are nothing new after all...