Disabling file and folder compression

[KK20]

The little monsters have found a new ruse, enabling compression on a read only directory! Obviously when a few of them do it in a room the server soon bogs down. They have traverse, list and read rights only yet they can still enact a compress entire contents! This also works on their network shares which have the same NTFS security.

 

Is there a way of disabling compression on the server side? I dont mind switching it off as there are very few compressed folders (probably ones I havent found yet).

 

I have looked in GPOs to disable on the client but can find nothing.

 

any ideas? Has anyone come up against something similar?

Edited June 10, 2011 by KK20

[Arthur]

Is there a way of disabling compression on the server side?

Running the command below from the command prompt will disable compression completely for all volumes.

 

fsutil behavior set disablecompression 1

[KK20]

i'll reboot it tonight and see if that sorts it (which it should after googling the command).

 

thanks!

[KK20]

To confirm; this works. Existing compressed folders are still compressed and accessible. No further compression is allowed although you can still uncompress a previously compressed folder (phew!).