[Samba] quota support on AIX

[Tsutomu Miyashita]

Hellow, members

IBM appreciated this problem as AIX bug, and they will release patches
against this problem as APAR IY38330. This patches will be released
about two months later.

T, Miyashita

> -----Original Message-----
> From: samba-admin at lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-admin at lists.samba.org]On
> Behalf Of Tsutomu Miyashita
> Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 10:51 AM
> To: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: RE: [Samba] quota support on AIX
> 
> 
> Hellow, members
> 
> I found this problem was probably caused by OS bug.
> The reason why SAMBA could not get quota infomation was because
> the quotactl system call used by smbd/quotas.c returned a error
> of "operation not permitted".
> AIX's quotactl returns error if uid and euid are not the same.
> I reported this problem to IBM and the patch against this problem will
> be released. I will report about this patch ID to this ML.
> If you want to use SAMBA quota function on AIX, you can get this on
> SAMBA 1.x. That is because both uid and euid are the user ID of file
> access on SAMBA 1.x's smbd, not root.
> 
> Tsutomu Miyashita
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: samba-admin at lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-admin at lists.samba.org]On
> > Behalf Of Tsutomu Miyashita
> > Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 1:40 PM
> > To: samba at lists.samba.org
> > Subject: [Samba] quota support on AIX
> > 
> > 
> > Hellow, members
> > 
> > I want to use SAMBA with disk quota support on AIX machine,
> >  but have not succeeded yet. Are there any members who could
> > succeeded setting up SAMBA on that environment?
> > 
> > OS:AIX4.3.3
> > SAMBA:2.2.5
> > configure option:--with-quotas
> > 
> > First, I configured AIX's quota environment, and confirmed quota
> > worked fine. And I accessed to SAMBA, but disk size displayed
> > on Windows explorer did not match with quota size. Imformed disk
> > size is filesystem size of SAMBA server.
> > I comfirmed this step on Redhat6.2, but informed disk size was 
> > just quota size.
> > I wonder SAMBA quota function does not support AIX. Is that true?
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks
> > Tsutomu Miyashita
> > 
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