Jwp wrote:
On a windows box, there is by default no limit to the space that may be used by a single user. Thus one user allowed to write to a shared folder can fill the entire drive. Since you are mounting the directory for ftp from the windows machine you are dependent upon the windows controls for space and permissions. This has the possibility of becoming an issue.Your approach seems to me to be reasonable.
There are a few considerations.
1) Are you allowing them to write to the ftp server? If so you might
still have a space problem develop.
If you don't mind could you expound on this a little?
If the directories used were on a linux box the maximum space available for use by that user is the lesser of 1) the physical space available on the partition or 2) the space allowed by using quotas.
A good administrator has his users home directories located so that if the partition fills up it does not impact any other operation of the machine.
One easy way, if these users all are using only the ftp shared
directory, would be to mount it, as you already have said.
Then for each user, make that directory their home directory, and make
each user a member of the same group. Give the group appropriate
permissions for that directory.
Thanks, this was my initial solution but I like accountability associated
with unique logins, also some users have access to content that I don't want
to give to others (the ability to upload, a different set of files etc)
Reasonable. Different shares for each user is good
So by mounting network drives multiple times I am not using resources,Of course you are using resources, both network and on the machines. It depends on your setup and usage whether this becomes of signifigance.
slowing down either system?
