A school runs an educational application called Plato on Windows 2000.
Each student has their own Plato login, which allows classes to be
individually assigned and progress to be tracked, but everyone logs
into the domain using the same account. Although the drive that Plato
is installed on has over 20 GB available, after registering a bunch of
new students the application no longer has enough space to run.

I checked the volume and see that Quota Management is enabled and
space is denied to users who exceed the quota limit. This makes sense
because the kids are very good at finding places to hide large
multimedia files. Can Plato directories be exempted from the quota or
is there an equivalent way to do the same thing?

I thought about installing another drive or repartitioning the
existing drive but I bet there's a way to achieve the same goals as
quotas but with greater granularity than the entire volume.

"Bob Simon" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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Without Win2003 *R2* quotas are PER VOLUME -- so upgrade to
R2 or try this hack:

Move exceptional directories to another volume. Use Linkd.exe (MS
site in Reskit tools) to map Original "Plato" directory to the new location
where there are no quotas.

It will still appear to be on the "same" volume -- permissions must be
set correctly to ensure students don't find this and use THAT space.

Not without R2 -- or buying (a lot of) other expensive quota management
software.

--
Herb Martin, MCSE, MVP
http://www.LearnQuick.Com
(phone on web site)