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Thank you for both of your suggestions. I will look into mandatory profile as well as DeepFreeze. As for fizban2's question about why we are implementing this restriction, I am working at a school and people increasingly uses those machines to download illegal files from the internet. To minimize the abuse, the school decided to put this restriction on those machines. They will still be able to save their work on their NFS share, but not on the local machines. I have seen machines which has two partitions and disallow users from accessing the primary partition. I think I can do this, but it seems to me that it is absurd to make 50 MB partition for such purpose. I will keep looking for a better way to implement this.

I have a Domain Controller (Windows Server 2003 SP1) with AD and 22 client machines (Windows XP Pro SP2) under this domain. I am having trouble setting up the client machine to do the following. I need to setup the client machines in this domain so that when a user logs on to the machine they can only use upto 50 MB of the HDD space temporarily. That is, any changes a user makes won't be permanent. The disk quota on the local hard drive volume doesn't seem to accomplish this task. What I think I have to do is: 1. restrict users to write to a certain location (ex. folder) in the HDD 2. write a script to wipe out contents in that location whenever a user logs in or out Has anyone done a similar task before? Please let me know if there is a better way to implement this. I am having trouble finding out any references to doing this. If anyone knows where to begin, please let me know. Thank you very much in advance.