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Name: Narendranmca
Date: July 31, 2007 at 16:06:42 Pacific
OS: Win XP
CPU/Ram: Intel P4 - 256MB
Product: DLink
Comment:

How to share a harddisk if it is a 120GB HDD and if 4 users need to share the same HDD "30GB each"?



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Name: OtheHill
Date: July 31, 2007 at 17:39:04 Pacific
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Would this be also sharing one installation of WinXP? If so you need to setup users and set disk quotas. Or you could partition the drive and let each use one partition.
Why do you need to do this anyway?


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Response Number 2
Name: Dave The Snakes
Date: August 1, 2007 at 03:47:09 Pacific
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I think this may be possible with one of the actually older IBM's or HP's server computers they have whats known as hot-swap drives and the hardware and cable sockets to do this,they are quite hard to find second-hand but then again no-one wants them


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Response Number 3
Name: Narendranmca
Date: August 1, 2007 at 18:47:43 Pacific
Reply:

Thanks a lot for all your responses...

This was ofcourse sharing one installation of WinXP but then a new request cameup to have both XP and Linux in the same.

We do this for cost cutting as buying one 120GB HDD would cost less than buying three 40GB's. 80people need 30GB each. So sharing would help us a lot.

Dave,
Though hot-swap drives are older it is very new to me. Today I learnt something new to me.


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Response Number 4
Name: OtheHill
Date: August 1, 2007 at 19:06:12 Pacific
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Read the help files in WinXP on how the setup disk quotas and user profiles. Without having users setup anyone could access anyone elses files. It is just one more step to set Quotas for disk usage.


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Response Number 5
Name: Narendranmca
Date: August 1, 2007 at 19:35:16 Pacific
Reply:

Thanks again for addtional information.


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