Stopping proquota.exe running on local profile

[Chris_B]

I use profile size limiting on my W2K3 domain as I have a large number of hotdesk users with roaming profiles.

However, I also have a few users (me included!) who use laptops when out of the office. I joined my laptop to the domain, and logged on as my domain account. Once my profile had roamed down, I changed it to a local profile (so I don't have to try to sync it over the VPN when away from the office).

That worked fine. But, because my account is a domain account, proquota.exe still runs and tells me that I'm over my quota (I've added a lot of extra software and more file caching on my notebook).

I don't want to just increase the quota becuase that affects the roaming profile too. I don't want to use a local account on the notebook because when I'm on a remote site that is on the domain, I want to be able to use domain resources (like file shares and printers), and XP has a habit of trying to log me on with local credentials and locking my domain account, despite having been supplied domain credentials properly, if I initially login with a local account.

I guess I could just use permissions to prevent the System account from reading proquota.exe and block it from running, but I'd prefer a 'tidier' way if there's any way to prevent proquota from running against local profiles only.

[Chris_B]

Looks like fudging the permissions to prevent it being able to run is the only way- there seems to be no way to prevent it running against a local profile.

[danksy]

Talking to yourself again mate?

[Chris_B]

It's often the only way to get a sensible answer!

[Jon]

I find that too lol