Mapped Drive to Show as Local Drive for Server 2008 Disk Quota

xkennyx · 20-08-2012, 16:17

Hi Guys,

I have a problem in which i need to set a quota on a Buffalo Terastation Pro NAS using Windows Server 2008 R2 inbuilt FRSM. It will only create quotas for drives that are local and will not discover shared mapped drives.

Is there any way possible for this to work? I have used the "mklink" command to no avail. If anyone has a solution other than manually adding users to the Buffalo Web Panel it would be greatly appreciated.

Many Thanks

Kenny Pester

SimpleSimon · 20-08-2012, 19:50

Had a quick look on the Buffalo website and it appears that the TeraStation includes Active Directory support and Disk Quotas, so can you not use that to control access and quotas?

jem · 20-08-2012, 20:49

Possibly a bit overkill but assuming (and I think it does) that the Tetastation can be configured to be an iSCSI target then you could connect it to the Windows Server and the share on it would appear to be a local volume.

Almost certainly, you would need to copy off any data from it first as setting it up for iSCSI generally blows away any existing shares.

xkennyx · 21-08-2012, 08:44

Quote:

Originally Posted by SimpleSimon

Had a quick look on the Buffalo website and it appears that the TeraStation includes Active Directory support and Disk Quotas, so can you not use that to control access and quotas?

Thank you for your reply Simon, Unfortunately the TeraStation's use of active directory is only for read/write access to the drive, there is no way to import the user's on AD for quota access, the only way is manually re-create every username in our directory with the same password that is used in the Windows environment.