topic Windows Groups and Quotas in Network and Storage Protocols https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/Windows-Groups-and-Quotas/m-p/60995#M5553 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi</P><P>I know in the past Windows Groups where not su<SPAN style="background-color: #f8fafd;">pported for quotas only UNIX Groups are, this is true upto ONTAP 7.2.6.1. Does anyone know if this has changed in newer ONTAP versions or even if there is a plan to modify it?</SPAN></P><P></P><P><SPAN style="background-color: #f8fafd;">Thanks </SPAN></P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:18:42 GMT mechatronic 2025-06-05T07:18:42Z Windows Groups and Quotas https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/Windows-Groups-and-Quotas/m-p/60995#M5553 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi</P><P>I know in the past Windows Groups where not su<SPAN style="background-color: #f8fafd;">pported for quotas only UNIX Groups are, this is true upto ONTAP 7.2.6.1. Does anyone know if this has changed in newer ONTAP versions or even if there is a plan to modify it?</SPAN></P><P></P><P><SPAN style="background-color: #f8fafd;">Thanks </SPAN></P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:18:42 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/Windows-Groups-and-Quotas/m-p/60995#M5553 mechatronic 2025-06-05T07:18:42Z Re: Windows Groups and Quotas https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/Windows-Groups-and-Quotas/m-p/60999#M5554 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>This has not changed in ONTAP.</P><P></P><P>However for one use case of this there is a work-around.&nbsp; The case is where you have a flexvol or qtree that will be a "workgroup share" for a particular group and you want to limit how much they write.</P><P>In the case of a volume, just set the size and put a CIFS share-level ACL that only allows that group to access it.&nbsp; In the case of a qtree, put a tree quota on the qtree and so the same with the share-level ACL.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:08:34 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/Windows-Groups-and-Quotas/m-p/60999#M5554 adamfox 2010-02-10T16:08:34Z