Re: ftp and folder quotas

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From: Alun Jones [MSFT] (alunj_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/15/05 

Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 14:47:59 -0800

The obvious workaround would be to create a new partition, of a small size,
and have the directory be a virtual directory that pointed to the new
partition.

Partition size limits are as absolute as any quota I can think of.

But you might want to ask your customer if that's really the best scenario -
after all, if the warez banditz go after his FTP server, he's reached the
situation where his bona-fide customers are frozen out of uploading to the
upload directory.

A better solution is to have a specific (non-anonymous) user name and
password that is used only for uploads. Change the password weekly or so,
and give it out to those customers that need to upload.

Alun.
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"Ned" <Ned@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:91F5028A-92FE-4D79-B5BA-226FA7E55C76@microsoft.com...
>I think I already know that what I'm requesting is impossible, but I
>thought
> I should ask in case I'm wrong ;)
>
> A client has requested an anonymous ftp site (IIS6).  I told them it would
> have to be read-only, I don't want anonymous users reading and writing,
> because otherwise the site would be used for nefarious purposes.  But they
> asked if it is possible to make a subfolder writable by the anon user, and
> have this subfolder have a size quota, so that if it were subverted at
> least
> the entire volume wouldn't be filled up.
>
> As far as I know in win2003, storage quotas are configured for a volume
> (not
> a folder), on a user-by-user basis.  Furthermore, I know of no way to
> specify
> a different anon user for a subfolder from the one at the root (because if
> I
> could just use a different anon user in the folder, then my problem would
> be
> solved and I'd apply a quota against that user only).
>
> Is this all correct or is there some special workaround that I'm not aware
> of?
>
> Thanks.
>
> -- Ned

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