HP-UX with SAMBA and quotas

[Fernando Boza]

In HP-UX with Samba as a file-server, how I implement QUOTAs?

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom Fernando,

A samba user is like any other user. Quotas applies and writes will be denied after a certain point. Samba is not a factor.

http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-90672/ch05s02.html
http://www.docs.hp.com/en/J2716-90016/ch05s03.html
http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/HP-UX-Admin/2005-04/0062.html

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[eric roseme · Accepted solution]

Hi Fernando,

Actually, CIFS/Samba must be configured for quotas, so that the correct message can be displayed to the Windows client when the quota is exceeded. There are actually SMB messages that get sent to the client to notify it that the quota is exceeded.

HP CIFS Server is configured by default to honor quotas. Do a "/opt/samba/bin/testparm -s -v | grep -i quota" and you will see the global smb.conf parameter (since it is a default it is not actually written in smb.conf). With "disk quotas" set to yes, all you have to do is configure quotas on the HP-UX system. If you need help with that, let me know (man quota/edquota).

I did a lot of testing with quotas in 2000 on Samba 2.0.6 to get them working with HP CIFS Server, but have not tested them in a long time. However, quota testing is part of the CIFS product testing that validates the submittal before it is shipped for every release, so it should be working fine still. If you encounter problems, let me know.

Eric Roseme
Hewlett-Packard

[Fernando Boza]

The problem is the following one:
First, I recover the Ignite from server1 with SAMBA to server2.
Second, I gave back backups of two file systems that have quotas from server3 to server2.
Now the client indicates to me that the limits of the quotas are not working.

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

Please provide the log files or data that is leading you to this conclusion.

Quotas do work on HP-UX and if you set up user quotas, they will apply to remote samba users. My original post was vague, which may have prompted the response.

I recommend using a 3.x version of Samba, 2.x is old and buggy and should be avoided on HP-UX.

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[Fernando Boza]

what log files do you need for help me?