Limit download usage for clients

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Published on 2010-01-19T08:04:28Z Indexed on 2010/03/27 9:33 UTC
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i am maintaining few windows xp machines under rhel 5 . i want to set quota for download file size. How to do it ?

I mean, in lan usar A's maximum donload file size is 300 MB , and user B's maximum download file size in 200 MB. I want to block downloading when user try to download more than 300 MB file.User should not allow to download 300MB file at a time.

Or how to set quota for maximum download per day, is there possible to do it ?

How can i do this ?

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