ONTAP 5.x did support quotas for windows users, but by requiring you to run a process on your windows machine to find all of your users and create unix ids for them on the filer. Thus, user foobar on domain baz would be given an entry like
1022:baz__foobar:::::
where 1022 is a unix id and the unix name is a concatenation of the domain and user name.
They did away with this in ONTAP 6.something and supported SID based quotas natively via the SecureShare Quota Manager 2.0. I believe that this can be purchased through your sales representative. Windows group quotas are not supported.
See the following link on NOW for product information. http://mktg-web.netapp.com/products/software/systemmanagement/secureshare/ss tools/ssq1_0.html
Jan S. Yoder Pervasent, Inc.
-----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com]On Behalf Of neil lehrer Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 11:05 AM To: Colm Buckley Cc: toasters Subject: Re: ontap 6.1x
from my 6.01 doc:
About quota targets A quota target can be A user A group A qtree When applying user and group quotas, Data ONTAP identifies users and groups by UNIX user names (or UIDs) and group names (or GIDs). It does not apply quotas based on Windows SIDs. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
from the 6.1 doc: A quota target can be A user, as represented by a UNIX ID or a Windows ID.
we want quotas based on windows id at the qtree level. am i misunderstanding the doc?
Colm Buckley wrote:
On Wed 17 Oct 2001 15:36, you wrote:
my management is very interested in doing quotas for our nt users. that requires 6.1x.
No, it doesn't. Quotas are fully implemented in 5.x
However, a difference you'll see is that NT users see the most restrictive quota as the "disk size" on 6.1.x, whereas the reported disk size on 5.x is the Netapp volume size.
We had wonderful problems with corruption of NT roaming profiles with small quotas under 5.3.6, because NT seems to ignore write errors when saving the profile; it just silently corrupts them. Lovely OS, really.
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