Server 2008 questions

[zylander]

My brothers computer has a small HD that has run out of space, rather than spend money on a new HD Im thinking about giving him a folder on my 3TB server. He is not cautious with what he downloads and where he downloads it from so I have a few concerns/questions:

1. Limiting the amount of space I give him; how do I do this? Is it possible to just create a new folder and enter a maximum value that it can reach, or am I going to have to create a partition for him? If I have to create a partition, is there an easy partition manager in Server 2008 that will let me create a new partition and then when it is no longer needed delete it and allow it to merge back into the other partition?

2. Security; Whether I give him access to a specific folder or an entire partition, I dont want my server getting infected by viruses or spyware. Aside from having security software routinely scan his space, is there a way to separate his space from the rest of the server so that if an infected file is uploaded to the server it will not spread? Or is there a way to quarantine his space while still allowing him to access/change it?

 

[dawks]

1) Check out Disk Quotas. If you're running a Microsoft server (2000 or greater), 2008 in your case, you can set quoatas on a per user, or per folder (I think) basis. You can say he can have 250gigs and no more. No need to worry about partitioning.
The Windows disk manager in Vista allows you to resize partitions so it might be in Server 2008 as well.

I had a C: partition and a D: partition. I wanted to shrink the D: and give the space to C:. What I did was shrink the D: partition with Disk management, but the option to expand C: was grayed out. What I needed to do was move the D: partition to the end of the drive, then I could expand C:. I used O&O Partition Manager (supports Vista and Server 2008 - unlike partition magic).

2) As far as virus's go, you should have to worry about him plopping infected files on the server. As long as your server is patched so a virus can't exploit a flaw in it, it should be fine. And don't open the files on the server itself. You can open infected files on a share from another computer, just not when you're logged into the server.