RE: [seul-edu] File Space on a Samba Server -- solved!

["Mark Orenstein" <morenstein@alum.mit.edu>]

Great!

Mark Orenstein

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-seul-edu@seul.org [mailto:owner-seul-edu@seul.org]On Behalf
Of Mike Wohlgemuth
Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2000 10:17 PM
To: seul-edu@seul.org
Subject: RE: [seul-edu] File Space on a Samba Server -- solved!


Well, an ex-student who we hired to help me part time, showed me
"immediately" what to do ....

open up the user's folder, select all, select properties and it gives you
the users directory size ....

gosh ... kids are great!!!!!

Mike


At 16:03 3/28/00 -0500, you wrote:
>I am using the version of Samba that came with Redhat 6.0.  When I right
>clicked/properties on a mapped drive, I think what is being returned is all
>the used space in the whole hard drive partition and all the free space in
>the whole partition.
>
>About the only suggestion I can offer is to have each user create a
>directory and allocate all files and directories under this "root
>equivalent" directory.  When right clicking/properties on this directory, I
>think the space utilization will be correct.
>
>Mark Orenstein
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-seul-edu@seul.org [mailto:owner-seul-edu@seul.org]On Behalf
>Of Mike Wohlgemuth
>Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2000 7:36 AM
>To: seul-edu@seul.org
>Subject: Re: [seul-edu] File Space on a Samba Server
>
>
>Well, I am at school now and right clicking on the mapped sharename gives
me
>an
>incorrect directory size ...
>
>Maybe I will try to upgrade like Kevin suggested. Before I do so, has
anyone
>tried this on a newer version of samba (I am running 1.9.18p10 --- see
>below)?
>
>
>Mike
>
>Mark Orenstein wrote:
>>
>> I don't know whether this will help, but from a W98 machine, if I right
>> click/properties on a sharename (by expanding Network Neighborhood), then
>I
>> do not get any space information.  On the other hand, if I map the
>sharename
>> to a "drive letter" and then from Windows Explorer, right
>click/properties,
>> then I will get space utilization information (however, it seems to be
>> truncated to 2Gigs).  I'm testing this at home using a W98/W95 peer
>network.
>> I'll try it tomorrow with Samba at work.
>>
>> Mark Orenstein
>> East Granby, CT School System
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-seul-edu@seul.org [mailto:owner-seul-edu@seul.org]On Behalf
>> Of Mike Wohlgemuth
>> Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 2:41 PM
>> To: seul-edu@seul.org
>> Subject: [seul-edu] File Space on a Samba Server
>>
>> Hi all ... I am trying to find an "easy" way for users to know how much
>> directory space they are using from a Win Nt workstation.
>>
>> Here is the scenario ... a samba server (1.9.18p10) that shares users
home
>> directories.
>> The relevant part of smb.conf is
>>
>> [homes]
>>    comment = %U's Files
>>    browseable = no
>>    writable = yes
>>
>> when the user right clicks on her folder, and selects properties, from a
>> workstation (all are NT 4.0) she gets the dialog "The server does not
>accept
>> remote requests" . If she goes inside of her directory and right clicks
>and
>> selects properties on a folder, then she gets all relevant information.
>>
>> How do I make it so that she can also see the properties on her folder?
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> --
>> Mike Wohlgemuth
>>
>> Technology Coordinator
>> Mathematics Teacher
>> SAIL High School
>> Tallahassee, Fla.
>>
>> mikE wohlgemutH  > shred@m21.sail.leon.k12.fl.us
>> sail higH schooL > http://www.sail.leon.k12.fl.us/
>>
>> Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they
>> translate into their own language, and forthwith it is something
>> entirely different.
>>                 -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
>
>--
>Mike Wohlgemuth
>
>Technology Coordinator
>Mathematics Teacher
>SAIL High School
>Tallahassee, Fla.
>
>mikE wohlgemutH  > shred@m21.sail.leon.k12.fl.us
>sail higH schooL > http://www.sail.leon.k12.fl.us/
>
>Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they
>translate into their own language, and forthwith it is something
>entirely different.
>                -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
>
>
mikE wohlgemutH

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