[Samba] Disk free space, quotas and GPFS

[Jeremy Allison]

On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 10:02:23AM +0100, Jonathan Buzzard wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 10:11 -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> 
> [SNIP]
> 
> > > I thought I would be able to use the dfree command option of smb.conf to
> > > report the correct information gathered through a script of some
> > > description. Unfortunately even with a simple shell script that echos a
> > > couple of numbers is owned by root and has permissions 700 does nothing
> > > (I still see numbers for the entire file system not the specific share)
> > > and I can see nothing in the samba logs even at log level 5.
> > 
> > dfree should work fine. I'd persue this avenue.
> > 
> 
> I did some experimentation and I have discovered the problem. The manual
> page for smb.conf says
> 
>     Note: Your script should NOT be setuid or setgid and should be owned
>     by (and writeable only by) root!
> 
> Which gives the impression that it should have permissions 700. Changing
> that to 755 and it works.

Oh that's interesting. It's because it is being run as the
connected user.

Jeremy.