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

[Rowland Penny]

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