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by d.jones092

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Hello All.

I've got a question regarding quotas on my Win2k Servers.

I've got quotas set up on all of my users as individuals in order to control their home drive sizes. I'd like to set them up also at the group level in order to control shared folders.

My question is this: If I have a quota entry for John of deny access at 100mb, and one for the group called Finance also at 50mb, if John is also a member of Finance, which quota is in effect? How can I apply quotas at the folder level? This is very confusing to me...

Dennis Jones

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by haileyan

Disk quotas in Windows 2000 cannot be applied on a per folder basis. The quotas exist for the entire volume only. If you want different quotas for different share you will have to make sure the folders are on different volumes.

This can be tricky because yopu might have a users home directory and their client files on the same volume.

Which ever quota limit(group or individual) is more restrictive is the one that will be applied for that volume.

by hitchcock4

Dennis,
About 6 months ago I thought that we were going to implement quotas here, but it never happened. At the time, I evaluated a product called QuotaWatch, which is free. (There are other prodcuts out there, but are more expensive.)
Please take a look at:
http://www.sharpeware.com/r5now/swstatic.nsf/html/quotawatch (remove any spaces)
It seemed like a good product to me. I believe that it would allow you to implement quotas on a folder by folder basis.

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