This announcement will probably not affect too many users, but it might have some impact and we can't narrow down the recipient space.

For some time now, our group shares on groupdata.phys.ethz.ch, when mounted via SMB, allowed so-called wide links - they point from one group share to a place outside of this share (usually to another share). For $complicated_reasons we have to disable those wide links. This will break redirection to the target share. We believe this is mainly a convenience issue, but we might not be aware of legitimate use cases. So if you find something broken after

Tuesday, October 8, 2024

please get in touch so that we can find a solution. Links within a particular share will still work, but link targets have to be relative (../../papers/thesis.tex) instead of absolute (/home/sharename/documents/papers/thesis.tex).

Thanks.

Owners of our group shares so far always had to contact us in order to have members added or removed to/from the underlying LDAP group. One of the benefits of the recent LDAP migration is that we can now offer a web interface for LDAP group member management.

If you're the owner of a group share and would like to be able to perform user management yourself, please get in touch with me. You can also use this interface to edit your group report settings.

Most of you use at least one of our group drives. Up to now, there wasn't much control over the disk space usage of those group drives, apart from a global quota for each share. We have now developed a monthly report than can be sent to a designated administrator of a share and that nicely states total disk usage, the biggest directories and a member list. It also contains a link to an interactive usage chart (see example here) that can be used to explore the directory. A demo report can be seen here.
So if you think you'd be a good candidate to receive the monthly report of your share(s) and would like to get a good idea about the share's usage, please contact us.