[Samba] 3.6.9 samba does not propagate (or show) Linux quota for windows users to see it
Chan Min Wai
dcmwai at gmail.com
Tue Sep 30 10:02:31 MDT 2014
Hi Rowland,
This seem to make good docs for samba wiki.
Thank a lot.
Regards,
Chan Min Wai
> Rowland Penny <rowlandpenny at googlemail.com> 於 30 Sep 2014 11:12 PTG 寫道：
>
>> 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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