Mornin' all,
I'm besieged by Windows users complaining about not being able to find out what the state of this mysterious "quota" thing is, and complaining about files going missing because they've gone over quota, and _naturally_ this is all the fault of our filer rather than of either the users themselves for not keeping an eye on how much disk they're using, or Windows applications for not handling write failures gracefully.
What they tend to do is point to the Windows (NT and 2000, btw) disk free display and say "Look! It says I've got 35GB of free space!" without working out that this is the free space on the entire volume rather than in their quota.
What are peoples' views on providing state-of-quota information to Windows users? Ideally, the disk free display should show the state of their quota rather than the volume, but things just don't seem to work that way. We have a web page they can query their quotas from, but either that or the simple act of logging into a Sun and saying "quota -v" is considered to be rather complex and not pro-active enough..
Any advice welcome..
TIA Mike
This is burt 19747 and has been fixed in Ontap 6.1.
Joan Pearson
At 04:23 AM 4/6/01 , you wrote:
Mornin' all,
I'm besieged by Windows users complaining about not being able to find out what the state of this mysterious "quota" thing is, and complaining about files going missing because they've gone over quota, and _naturally_ this is all the fault of our filer rather than of either the users themselves for not keeping an eye on how much disk they're using, or Windows applications for not handling write failures gracefully.
What they tend to do is point to the Windows (NT and 2000, btw) disk free display and say "Look! It says I've got 35GB of free space!" without working out that this is the free space on the entire volume rather than in their quota.
What are peoples' views on providing state-of-quota information to Windows users? Ideally, the disk free display should show the state of their quota rather than the volume, but things just don't seem to work that way. We have a web page they can query their quotas from, but either that or the simple act of logging into a Sun and saying "quota -v" is considered to be rather complex and not pro-active enough..
Any advice welcome..
TIA Mike
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