Re: Drive mapping disk size isn't right

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From: Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] (lanwench_at_heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmail.atyahoo.com)
Date: 03/19/05 

Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 15:53:00 -0500

Ray Joslyn wrote:
> Hello,
> I've got a share on my 2003 server set so that everyone in the domain
> has access to it. The problem is when people map a drive to this
> share, it does not display the right size of the disk, nor the right
> amount of free space. Different machines show different amounts of
> free space. But they all show it as a 1GB drive and when people copy
> files over to, they may get a disk full error, depending on how much
> free space there computer shows it having. However the drive is over
> 160GB and has over 100GB free.
>
> What could be causing this? By the way, when I map to this drive it
> shows the right size and free space. I have administrative
> priveledges.
>
> Ray

Are you perchance using user quotas on this volume? Sounds like it.

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