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

[Rowland Penny]

On 30/09/14 14:14, Karel Lang AFD wrote:
> Hi Rowland,
> thanks for the hint!
>
> Mine output is a little different to yours:
>
>
> smbd -b | grep 'QUOTA'
>    HAVE_SYS_QUOTA_H
>    HAVE_LINUX_XFS_QUOTAS
>    HAVE_QUOTACTL_LINUX
>    HAVE_SYS_QUOTAS
>    HAVE_XFS_QUOTAS
>    WITH_QUOTAS
>    WITH_QUOTAS
>
> missing specifically eg. "HAVE_GETQUOTA_RSLT_GETQUOTA_RSLT_U"
>
> Could this be a problem? This is starting to get to be a bit beyond my 
> 'learning curve' i achieved so far at SAmba, i'm afraid ..

Hi Karl, don't worry, this is how you learn Unix ;-)

I will also learn something here, because I don't know what 
'HAVE_GETQUOTA_RSLT_GETQUOTA_RSLT_U' means either, I think we need one 
of the devs to translate it into english from geek speak ;-)

Rowland

>
> Karel
>
>
>
>
> On 09/30/2014 02:54 PM, Rowland Penny wrote:
>> 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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