Configuring disk quotas in Windows 2000 systems

  

In a computer network where Windows 2000 Server is the server operating system, system administrators have an important task of setting disk quotas for clients accessing server resources, that is, limiting their volume space for one-time access to server resources. Quantity. The purpose of this is to prevent a client from overusing server and network resources, causing other clients to lose access to the server and use the network. This article describes the configuration of server disk quotas.

system administrators how to configure disk quotas

disk quota is not important for ordinary users of Windows 2000, but for the entire network system administrators, it is to this operation It is important. Because once there are many clients in the network, and frequent access to server resources and the use of the network, no matter how powerful the computing power of the server, or how much traffic the network can bear, it is difficult to meet the needs of all users. Therefore, the system administrator must set disk quotas for clients on the network. In Windows 2000, disk quotas control disk space usage by volume tracking. System administrators can configure it by following these steps:

o Prevent further use of disk space and login events when users exceed the specified disk space limit.

o Log in an event when the user exceeds the specified disk space alert level.

o When starting a disk quota, you can set two values: disk quota limit and disk quota alert level. Quota limits specify the amount of disk space a user can use. The alert level specifies the point at which the user is close to the quota limit. For example, set the user disk quota limit to 60MB and the disk quota alert level to 40MB. In this case, the user can store no more than 60MB of files in the volume. If the user stores more than 40MB of files in the volume, there will be a disk quota system logging in to a system event.

In addition, the system administrator can also specify that users can exceed the quota limit. Because it is useful to start quotas and not limit disk space usage when you don't want to deny users access to the volume but want to track each user's disk space usage. You can also specify whether to log in to the event when the user exceeds the quota limit and the disk quota alert level.

When starting a disk quota for a volume, new users from that point will automatically track the use of the volume. However, existing volume users will not be able to apply for disk quotas. You can request disk quotas for existing volume users by adding new quota entries in the Quota Entries window. Quotas can be started on local and remote volumes, but volumes that can only be shared in the root of the volume are formatted as NTFS.

To support disk quotas, disk volumes must be formatted as NTFS version 5.0. The NTFS version 4.0 volume will be automatically updated by Windows 2000 Setup to NTFS version 5.0 format. Also, in order to manage volume quotas, users must be members of the Administrators group on the same computer as the drive.

Note: If the volume is not in NTFS format, or if the user is not a member of the Administrators group on the local computer, the Quota tab does not appear on the property page of the volume. In addition, file compression does not affect the volume of the volume's billing numbers. For example, if the user Larry is limited to 5MB of disk space, the user can only store 5MB of files, even if the file is compressed.

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