Configuring disk quotas for Windows 2000 systems

In a computer network with Windows Server operating system, system administrators have an important task of setting disk quotas for clients accessing server resources, which is to limit the amount of volume space they have to access server resources at once. This is done to prevent a client from consuming server and network resources excessively, causing other clients to be unable to access the server and use the network. This article describes the relevant content for configuring server disk quotas.

How the system administrator configures disk quotas

Disk quotas are less important for ordinary Windows 2000 users, but this is important for system administrators across the network. Because once a lot of clients in the network, and frequent access to server resources and the use of the network, regardless of the server's computational power, or the network can withstand the amount of traffic, 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 are used to control disk space in accordance with volume tracking. The system administrator can configure this by following these steps:

o prevents further use of disk space and logon events when the user exceeds the specified disk space limit.

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

o When you start disk quotas, you can set two values: disk quota limits and disk quota alert levels. The quota limit specifies 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, setting the user disk quota limit is 60MB and the disk quota alert level is set to 40MB. In this case, users can store files that are no more than 60MB in the volume. If a user stores more than 40MB of files on a volume, a disk quota system will log in to a system event.

In addition, the system administrator can specify that the user can exceed the quota limit. Because it is useful to start quotas and not restrict disk space use when you do not want to deny users access to the volume, but want to track the use of disk space for each user. You can also specify whether to log on events when the user exceeds the quota limit and the disk quota alert level.

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

To support disk quotas, the disk volume must be formatted as NTFS version 5.0. The NTFS version 4.0 volume will automatically be updated by Windows2000 Setup to the NTFS version 5.0 format. Also, to manage quotas for a volume, the user must be a member of the Administrators group on the computer on which the drive resides. This article is from http://bianceng.cn (learn computer)

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 volume's property page. In addition, file compression does not affect the volume's accounting numbers. For example, if the user Larry is limited to 5MB of disk space, the user can only store 5MB files, even if the files are compressed.