How to effectively manage Win 2003 storage space

In the daily work of the network administrator, the file server is the object we often deal with. Maybe everyone has such a problem. Some colleagues always put their own personal files, such as MP3 songs, downloaded software, movies, etc. Just put it on the server, it wastes a lot of space on the server, and some of the important files in the work of some colleagues can not be placed on the server due to lack of space. Is there a way to manage disk space efficiently? The first thing we need to do is install and configure the file server on Windows 2003. On this basis, we will perform file service and resource sharing. Through the control of resource access rights, we can ensure the security of data access on the file server and set disk quotas to effectively manage. Our limited disk space.

First, Windows 2003 installation and configuration file server

File service is not the default installation component of Windows Server 2003, so you need to manually add and install the service. During the installation of the file server, the disk quota is set and a shared folder is added, and the permissions of the shared folder are simply set. Due to the limited space, the specific steps to install the file server are not mentioned here.

Because of security reasons, all folders in the server are not shared by default. When you create a file server, only one shared folder is created, so to give the user access to a resource, you must first set the folder as a share. Then give the user the appropriate access rights. If you create different user groups and join users with the same access rights to the same user group, the assignment of user rights becomes simple and fast. We can set resource sharing in win2003 in four ways, namely, setting resource sharing in the file server, setting folder sharing in the resource manager, setting folder sharing in the console tree, and setting up Windows Server 2003 Web sharing.

Second, the access to the network resources on the Windows 2003 file server and access control For Windows2000/XP users, there is no need to log in to the Windows Server 2003 file server, just type the user name and password when accessing the shared resources. You can access the resources you need. Windows 98/Me users must log in to the file server to access shared resources. We can access the files shared by “My Network Places", "Find &" Computers, "Network Drive Mapping"; For the Windows 98/Me client to access the win2003 file server, the situation is more complicated; if the Windows 98/Me user does not log in to the domain, access to shared resources will not be possible. The system will display a prompt for a password. Therefore, in order for Windows 98/Me to access shared folders in Windows Server 2003, you must log in to the server. When the Windows 98/Me computer starts up, the login dialog will be displayed, type the username and password here, and click the <;OK" button to log in to the specified Windows Server 2003 domain.

Windows 2003 servers should use the NTFS file system for secure access to resources. With NTFS permissions, you can control user accounts and group access to folders and files. Of course, NTFS permissions only apply to NTFS disk partitions, not to FAT or FAT32 file systems. Windows 2003 only provides NTFS permissions for disk partitions formatted with NTFS. To protect files and folders on NTFS disk partitions, you need to grant NTFS permissions to each user account that accesses the resource. Users must have explicit authorization to access resources. If the user account is not granted the appropriate permissions by the group, the corresponding file or folder cannot be accessed.

For every file and folder on an NTFS disk partition, NTFS stores a remote access control list (ACL). The ACL contains all the user accounts, groups, and computers that are authorized to access the file or folder, as well as the types of access they are granted. In order for a user to access a file or folder, the corresponding user account, group, or computer to which the user belongs must have a corresponding element in the ACL. Such an element is called an Access Control Element (ACE). In order for a user to be able to access a file or folder, the access control element must have the type of access requested by the user. If the ACL does not have a corresponding ACE, Windows 2003 will deny the user access to the corresponding resource.
Third, set the disk quota of the Windows 2003 file server

Disk quota is a file storage management based on users and partitions. With disk quota management, administrators can properly allocate disk space for local users or remote users logged into the local computer. Each user can only use the disk space allocated by the administrator. The disk quota is transparent to each user. When the user queries the available disk space, the system only reports the space allowed by the quota to the user. When the quota limit is exceeded, the system will prompt that the disk space is full. The disk quota calculates the usage of the user's disk space based on the disk space occupied by all the files owned by the user, regardless of the location of the file. The ownership of a file is identified by the security identifier in the security information of the file. If the user takes ownership of a file on the drive, the disk space he has used must be added to the space occupied by the file. Windows Server 2003 provides disk quota tracking for volumes and controls the use of disk space. Disk quotas are based on file ownership and apply only to volumes and are not affected by the folder structure of the volume and the layout on the physical disk. It is used to monitor the usage of individual user volumes, so each user's utilization of disk space does not affect the disk quotas of other users on the same volume.