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

Tue Sep 30 09:04:13 MDT 2014

Thanks a lot again Rowland,

Yes, one of my friends says "Windows is user-friendly OS - and Unix too, 
but Unix is choosing his friends with care" :]]

Do you think it would be wise to repost the original question to the 
samba-technical list then?

On 09/30/2014 03:52 PM, Rowland Penny wrote:
> 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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