Creating Limits on Mapped Home Folders

[angrycomputingteacher]

Hey Guys,

 

Just realized that our network does not yet have limits on the amount of storage per user. Although, I'm looking to change this. I need some sort of way to do this without GP or AD as we don't have either of those. We have the users setup on a network location and that every login a batch with instructions to map the correct rives is run. I need some way possibly through this script to limit the size that the user is allowed to have.

 

Thanks

[Steve21]

Assuming you have windows server wise it's doable through FSRM on the file server. Just put a limit on the directory and it'll filter down to folders

 

Steve

[Alis_Klar]

Using File Server Resource Manager on Windows Server (assuming you are using a Windows Server and not Samba on Linux) you can add an auto apply quota on the parent folder so that the quota applies to every new users folder created under that parent folder.

 

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc731577(v=ws.11).aspx

[mjk]

If you were using Samba on Linux,Mac or unix you would use "Quota" on the Filesystem and you can get it to email the user if you reach a soft quota:

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Storage_Administration_Guide/ch-disk-quotas.html

Edited August 10, 2016 by mjk

[jslate1980]

What OS is your file server running? If you are using 2012r2 are you using deduplication. Be careful as hard quotas are not supported with deduplication.

[clareq]

hard quotas on deduplicated volumes are only not supported on the root of the drive. you can create subfolders and hard quota them; https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831700.aspx

[angrycomputingteacher]

It's running 2012r2