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

Tue Sep 30 09:12:04 MDT 2014

On 30/09/14 16:04, Karel Lang AFD wrote:
> 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" :]]

Windows is only your friend whilst you have money, Unix will be your 
friend even if you are penniless ;-)

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

It cannot hurt, the script seems to be outputting the require info in 
the required format, so either your Centos smbd daemon wasn't configured 
correctly, or you have found a bug, or something else is going on. 
Either way, hopefully the devs can point you in the right direction.

Rowland

>
>
> 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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