Hi John (and others on the list)
Can I suggest that you add some information to the new Samba docs explaining
how to make Linux (or I suppose other Unix) group quotas be reflected in My
Computer and/or Explorer when a Windows user accesses a share that is
supposed to controlled by a quota?
Here was my particular situation this past week. I was setting quotas based
on Linux groups. Each Linux group had one main directory on a storage volume.
Inside that directory, each member of the group had his/her own directory.
All files that went into either the group's directory or the user's
sub-directories were set (via a sticky GID) to always belong to the particular
Linux
group.
So, on the Linux side, the quotas worked perfectly. Set the quota to 200 GBs
and when the total files stored in the Group's directory, including the
user's subdirectories, reached 200 GBs, no more files could be written to
the
Group or User directories.
The question was, how to make My Computer or Explorer show how much space
the group had left when accessing a Samba share that either WAS the group
directory or that was a User directory inside the Group directory.
The answer, it turns out, was to use the "force group = Group Name"
line in
the share definition. We were relying on Linux to impose the group name on
every file, which it was in fact doing perfectly. However, only the "force
group = Group Name" line made Samba report to Windows that the amount of
space
left was what was left according to the quota.
It would be nice to document this in "The Official Samba-3 How-to" --
under
the "force group" listing in the "smb.conf" section, and in
a separate place
that was more about quotas (I don't know where).
Unless this is the wrong way to get Windows to display this information. We
certainly couldn't find much information on how to do this.
Regards,
Andy Liebman
