[Samba] configure options for 3.x -still experimental?

[James Peach]

On 8/5/05, Moondance Foxmarnick <calabash at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Hello. I am trying to set up SAMBA 3.x on FC4. SAMBA will be PDC with no
> other server. I work at a K-12 school, so unless I want 20 episodes of
> "Family Guy" in a student's folder, I need to set quotas.
> I've been looking around for 2 days and I'm stumped.
> I found something called smbcquotas, but it seems to apply to a mixed NT
> server environment.
> I heard rumors of configure options --with-quotas, but couldn't find any
> documentation in my Terpstra/Vernooij book. Finally I found a reference
> to it my "Using SAMBA" book - it says it is experimental! Is that still
> true?

AFAIK, the quotas work.

> Does no-one use quotas? Or is it a blindingly simple Linux thing that I
> don't know about? I found un-answered posts through-out the Internet on
> disk-quotas. What do other people do?

You'll need to enable quotas in your underlying filesytem. Samba will
then be able to query them. Most filesystems have quota support these
days. I'm most familiar with XFS, in which case you need to enable
quota support in your kernel and mount the filesytem with the "quota"
option (see mount(8) for details).

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James Peach | jorgar at gmail.com