[Lias] user quotas

[Simon Bryan]

Hi all,
Am looking for some collective wisdom.
I am considering moving all my Windows NT user home directories off the NT 
server and putting them on a Linux server. I can use Samba to share the 
directories. Actually what we have done on the NT system is to share the 
root directory of all the user home directories and then have the 
permissions set to prevent users accessing the wrong directories, this is 
achieved through batch files and scripts so we don't have to do them 
individually.

Q1: How easy would it be to set all the permissions so that they could all 
only access their own directory?

Q2: What are my options with respect to managing disk quotas? Students and 
staff will use all they can get and never delete or zip anything if they 
don't have to and with 900 students and 100 staff disk space can be quickly 
used up.

Q3: Are there any other problems I have overlooked in my naivety?



Simon Bryan
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IT Manager
OLMC Parramatta
http://www.olmc.nsw.edu.au
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