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

[Karel Lang AFD]

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
>