Hi Bjoern, On 11/28/2012 04:25 PM, Bjoern Baumbach wrote: > Hi Mikael, > > On 11/28/2012 03:44 PM, Бак Микаел wrote: >> I am Mikael and I am new to this list. > > Welcome to the Samba mailing list :-) > >> I am able to limit the user's disk usage with file system quota, but >> unfortunately the disk space and usage reported to the Windows machines >> are the total amount of storage space and the total amount of space left >> on the entire backup server. This is not that nice. >> >> I would like to somehow tweak the way Samba reports disk usage and total >> amount of disk space to its Windows clients. I could imagine a custom >> script that I write to get the user's quota information and pass that >> along to the clients. >> >> I have noticed that there is a "dfree command" in the global section. >> But that seems not to be able to work share specific. I must be able to >> somehow resolve a username->share mapping and get quota from that >> specific user. > > You can set the "dfree command" per share, but for use with the home > shares it would need some more configuration. > >> I thought about using "homes" instead of plain shares, but I'm not sure >> if that would help me in any way. > > Yes, this is the problem, you should use "homes". >
Yep. You are right. As soon as I switched to "homes" and set group quotas instead of user quotas everything worked as expected. No need to hack "dfree command" or "get quota command". I'm happy! > I think the "get quota command" option is what you are looking for. > It's a global option that specifies a custom script which receives > amongst others information about the directory (e.g. /home) and a > specific user/group. In this script you can use system tools to > determine the needed values (e.g. free/used space). Please refer to the > smb.conf man page for more information about the get quota command. > Probably you'll find such a script for you system by searching for "get > quota command" and your quota system. > I found some examples in perl but as I said I did not need to implement any special scripting after switching to "homes" and group quota on the file system. > Best regards > Björn > Thank you very much for kicking me in the right direction! Have a nice day, Mikael -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
