Disk Quota Set Up

[Guest]

We're in the process of migrating from an undersized Win 2000 file server to a roomier Win 2003 server and want to take the opportunity to invoke Disk Quotas to limit usage on a per user basis. I think I have the basics down but here's a simple question: if I take all of the existing files on the current server and copy them over, will I as "administrator" be logged as the owner, hence circumventing the Disk Quota system, or will the original owners of the files be retained? If the answer is "yes, administrator is now the owner of all 100 GB of data", what are my options? Do I have to have both servers up live to allow the individual users to migrate their own files? Is a Backup and restore of those files another way to accomplish this goal? Any other suggestions?

 

[LWG]

the administrator will be the own. there is a program out there call
subinacl, this is what I have used to change ownership. It works really
well...

Larry

We're in the process of migrating from an undersized Win 2000 file server

to a roomier Win 2003 server and want to take the opportunity to invoke Disk
Quotas to limit usage on a per user basis. I think I have the basics down
but here's a simple question: if I take all of the existing files on the
current server and copy them over, will I as "administrator" be logged as
the owner, hence circumventing the Disk Quota system, or will the original
owners of the files be retained? If the answer is "yes, administrator is now
the owner of all 100 GB of data", what are my options? Do I have to have
both servers up live to allow the individual users to migrate their own
files? Is a Backup and restore of those files another way to accomplish this
goal? Any other suggestions?