RE: [K12OSN] Disk Quota SAMBA/LDAP?

[Henry Burroughs <hburroughs HHPREP ORG>]

I can vouch for disk quota's working for when users are stored in LDAP. 
(No local copies needed) Basically, what matters is UID #.  Other parts
of the system actually map the UID # to the username.

Henry

> 
> ______________________________________________________________________
> From: Brian Chivers <brian portsmouth-college ac uk>
> To: Support list for opensource software in schools. <k12osn redhat com>
> Subject: Re: [K12OSN] Disk Quota SAMBA/LDAP?
> Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 16:37:43 +0100
> 
> Jim Kronebusch wrote:
> > Has anyone tried setting disk quotas for users created with the
> > SAMBA/LDAP script?
> >
> > Just wondering if this still works the same as always or not.  I was
> > just thinking that disk quotas were built off of local system accounts
> > and wasn't sure if they would properly affect LDAP users.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Jim Kronebusch
> > Cotter Tech Department
> > 507-453-5188
> > jim winonacotter org
> 
> I've tried it, I created a "standard user" with all the quota's setup and
> then inserted I line in the batch add script just after it sets the
> smbpasswd to do a edquota -p "standard users" "username" (I think it's
> edquota -p) and it seemed to work on my test server.
> 
> I'm about to setup our main production server so I'll be trying it more
> soon.
> 
> Brian Chivers
> 
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