Server Space Problem

You may possibly have disk quotas enabled in which case, looking at Disk Manger you see 500 meg of free space, but from the network share your copying 40megs of data and getting a message that the virtual drive is full. If this is the case, a great document that describes the process is Chapter 2 - Data Storage and Management of the Windows 2000 Operations Guide. If you would like I can send you a copy, send me email with a return address, peter_solomon@hotmail.com and I will send it to you. You can also do a search for Disk Quota on technet or from the site http://support.microsoft.com for more information on setting up and changing disk quotas. One important point you cannot remove a disk quota or change its size as long as data that existed in the directory remains that had Quotas applied. If previously you turned it on, then turned it off, you might be having this problem as well. Here is a small part on that:

User quota entries cannot be deleted if a user still owns files on the volume; all files owned by that user must either be deleted or moved to another volume, or ownership of the files must be transferred to another user. - From Chapter 2 of the User Guide

Im guesing this can be interpeted differetly but Thats asleast how I take it.

Pete

You may possibly have disk quotas enabled in which case, looking at Disk Manger you see 500 meg of free space, but from the network share your copying 40megs of data and getting a message that the virtual drive is full. If this is the case, a great document that describes the process is Chapter 2 - Data Storage and Management of the Windows 2000 Operations Guide. If you would like I can send you a copy, send me email with a return address, peter_solomon@hotmail.com and I will send it to you. You can also do a search for Disk Quota on technet or from the site http://support.microsoft.com for more information on setting up and changing disk quotas. One important point you cannot remove a disk quota or change its size as long as data that existed in the directory remains that had Quotas applied. If previously you turned it on, then turned it off, you might be having this problem as well. Here is a small part on that:

User quota entries cannot be deleted if a user still owns files on the volume; all files owned by that user must either be deleted or moved to another volume, or ownership of the files must be transferred to another user. - From Chapter 2 of the User Guide

Im guesing this can be interpeted differetly but Thats asleast how I take it.

Pete

Your problem is that DOS clients can't recognize a DOS partition larger than 2 gig. They compare the reported free space of 5 gig (which they can't comprehend) to the size of the drive (which they can't comprehend) and decide the drive must be full.

2 workarounds

1) Adjust the size of your partitions so that less than 2 gig of free space is available on a drive which is used as a file server for DOS apps
2) Artificially fill the drive with garbage so that less than 2 gig is free -- then periodically empty a little garbage.

Test what I'm saying with #2 -- put 3 gig in a folder and see what happens!