[Samba] 3.6.9 samba does not propagate (or show) Linux quota for windows users to see it

[Rowland Penny]

On 30/09/14 13:43, Karel Lang AFD wrote:
> Thanks Rowland again for much helping out!
>
> Your script looks more tidy :].
>
> It works nicely and if i run it on unix level, then it reports all the 
> values in one row to CLI and to log file.
>
> But again, when i log in onto windows workstation, and select 
> 'properties' on my (or anybody) HOME folder then (mapped as H:), again 
> i get reported the used / free space of whole filesystem and not of 
> the user quota that is forced upon his home folder :[
>
> I have to be missing something or maybe the samba in CentOS is not 
> compiled with quota support...?

Easy to find out:

smbd -b | grep 'QUOTA'

Should return something like:

   HAVE_SYS_QUOTAS
   HAVE_SYS_QUOTA_H
   HAVE_RPCSVC_RQUOTA_H
   HAVE_GETQUOTA_RSLT_GETQUOTA_RSLT_U
   HAVE_NFS_QUOTAS
   HAVE_QUOTACTL_LINUX
   WITH_QUOTAS

Rowland

>
> Karel
>
>
>
> On 09/30/2014 11:56 AM, Rowland Penny wrote:
>> On 30/09/14 10:33, Karel Lang AFD wrote:
>>> Hi Rowland,
>>> thanks for excellent suggestion - should have thought of it myself.
>>> I redirected the "echo $RET" in my script to file to:
>>> /tmp/user.quota.log
>>>
>>> Strange thing is, if I right-click on Windows workstation on my
>>> "H:\username" homefolder and pick "properties", than the log show
>>> exactly 4 empty rows.
>>>
>>> Nothing in there, nothing at all, just 4 empty rows
>>>
>>> cat user.quota.log | wc -l
>>> 4
>>>
>>> Not sure if it would tell you - or anybody anything, but i'm out of
>>> ideas ..:[
>>>
>>> Karel
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 09/29/2014 08:00 PM, Rowland Penny wrote:
>>>> On 29/09/14 15:03, Karel Lang AFD wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi list,
>>>>> perhaps someone can help me out?
>>>>>
>>>>> fact:
>>>>> - samba 3.6.9 plus CentOS 6.5
>>>>>
>>>>> - i have user quotas set up on their HOME directories, which resides
>>>>> in the "/home" filesystem
>>>>>
>>>>> - on windows workstation their disk quota is not shown, instead they
>>>>> see whole filesystem free/taken space (which generate much grumbling)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> After searching lists, googling etc., i decided to give a try the
>>>>> "smb.conf" option:
>>>>> "get quota command" and written a script to back it up.
>>>>>
>>>>> so i have got in "smb.conf":
>>>>> get quota command = /usr/local/bin/query_quota.sh
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Script (based on the script that was written by Rick Brown back in
>>>>> 2005 that i dug out of samba list):
>>>>> ************************************************************************ 
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> #!/bin/bash
>>>>> PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin
>>>>>
>>>>> IAM=`id -un`
>>>>>
>>>>> # find the user's home file system.
>>>>> DIR="home"
>>>>>
>>>>> #check and see if they're over quota, as it will affect output
>>>>> # user with reached quota has 9 fields in row, 'ok' user only 8
>>>>> OVER=`/usr/bin/sudo /usr/sbin/repquota /$DIR | grep -w $IAM | wc -w`
>>>>>
>>>>> # over quota
>>>>> if [ $OVER -eq 9 ]; then
>>>>>         RET=`/usr/bin/sudo /usr/sbin/repquota /$DIR | grep -w $IAM  |
>>>>> awk -F" " '{print "2 "$3" "$4" "$5" "$7" "$8" "$9}'`
>>>>> else
>>>>> # not over quota
>>>>>         RET=`/usr/bin/sudo /usr/sbin/repquota /$DIR | grep -w $IAM  |
>>>>> awk -F" " '{print "2 "$3" "$4" "$5" "$6" "$7" "$8}'`
>>>>> fi
>>>>> echo $RET
>>>>> ************************************************************************ 
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> script output if run by user on linux:
>>>>> 2 2494580 3300000 3500000 3444 0 0
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Which should be about right - according to the Manpage of smb.conf
>>>>> that says:
>>>>>
>>>>> "This script should print one line as output with spaces between the
>>>>> arguments.
>>>>> The arguments are:
>>>>>
>>>>>            ·   Arg 1 - quota flags (0 = no quotas, 1 = quotas 
>>>>> enabled,
>>>>> 2 = quotas enabled and
>>>>>                enforced)
>>>>>
>>>>>            ·   Arg 2 - number of currently used blocks
>>>>>
>>>>>            ·   Arg 3 - the softlimit number of blocks
>>>>>
>>>>>            ·   Arg 4 - the hardlimit number of blocks
>>>>>
>>>>>            ·   Arg 5 - currently used number of inodes
>>>>>
>>>>>            ·   Arg 6 - the softlimit number of inodes
>>>>>
>>>>>            ·   Arg 7 - the hardlimit number of inodes
>>>>>
>>>>>            ·   Arg 8(optional) - the number of bytes in a
>>>>> block(default is 1024)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> But still i see only report of free / used space on the whole
>>>>> Filesystem, that i mapped to windows as H:\username
>>>>>
>>>>> Anybody could share some insight on this matter?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks a LOT.
>>>>>
>>>>> Karel Lang
>>>>
>>>> Hi Karl, have you tried altering the script to dump $RET to a file in
>>>> /tmp, this will show you just what the script is actually producing
>>>> in use.
>>>>
>>>> Rowland
>>>>
>>>
>> Hi Karl, I tried your script and I couldn't get it to output anything to
>> a temp file until I altered it to this:
>>
>> #!/bin/bash
>> # /usr/local/bin/query_quota.sh
>>
>> PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin
>>
>> IAM=`id -un`
>>
>> # find the user's home file system.
>> DIR="home"
>>
>> #check and see if they're over quota, as it will affect output
>> # user with reached quota has 9 fields in row, 'ok' user only 8
>> OVER=$(/usr/sbin/repquota /$DIR | grep -w $IAM | wc -w)
>>
>> # over quota
>> if [ "$OVER" = "9" ]; then
>>      RET=$(/usr/sbin/repquota /$DIR | grep -w $IAM  | awk -F" " '{print
>> "2 "$3" "$4" "$5" "$7" "$8" "$9}')
>> else
>>      # not over quota
>>      RET=$(/usr/sbin/repquota /$DIR | grep -w $IAM  | awk -F" " '{print
>> "2 "$3" "$4" "$5" "$6" "$7" "$8}')
>> fi
>>
>> echo "$RET"
>> echo "$RET" > /tmp/results.txt
>>
>> exit 0
>>
>> I also ran these two commands:
>>
>> chmod +r /home/aquota.group
>> chmod +r /home/aquota.user
>>
>> With the above alterations, I get this in /tmp/results.txt:
>>
>> 2 157536380 0 0 134072 0 0
>>
>> Which I think is what you require ;-)
>>
>> Rowland
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