SMBCQUOTAS(1)
NAME
smbcquotas - Set or get QUOTAs of NTFS 5 shares
SYNOPSIS
smbcquotas {//server/share} [-u user] [-L] [-F] [-S QUOTA_SET_COMMAND]
[-n] [-t] [-v] [-d debuglevel] [-s configfile] [-l logdir] [-V]
[-U username] [-N] [-k] [-A]
DESCRIPTION
This tool is part of the samba(7) suite.
The smbcquotas program manipulates NT Quotas on SMB file shares.
OPTIONS
The following options are available to the smbcquotas program.
- -u user
- Specifies the user of whom the quotas are get or set. By default
the current user's username will be used. - -L
- Lists all quota records of the share.
- -F
- Show the share quota status and default limits.
- -S QUOTA_SET_COMMAND
- This command sets/modifies quotas for a user or on the share,
depending on the QUOTA_SET_COMMAND parameter which is described
later. - -n
- This option displays all QUOTA information in numeric format. The
default is to convert SIDs to names and QUOTA limits to a readable string format. - -t
- Don't actually do anything, only validate the correctness of the
arguments. - -v
- Be verbose.
- -h|--help
- Print a summary of command line options.
- -d|--debuglevel=level
- level is an integer from 0 to 10. The default value if this parameter is not specified is 0.
- The higher this value, the more detail will be logged to the log
files about the activities of the server. At level 0, only critical errors and serious warnings will be logged. Level 1 is a reasonable level for day-to-day running - it generates a small amount of
information about operations carried out. - Levels above 1 will generate considerable amounts of log data, and
should only be used when investigating a problem. Levels above 3
are designed for use only by developers and generate HUGE amounts
of log data, most of which is extremely cryptic. - Note that specifying this parameter here will override the
smb.conf.5.html# parameter in the smb.conf file. - -V|--version
- Prints the program version number.
- -s|--configfile <configuration file>
- The file specified contains the configuration details required by
the server. The information in this file includes server-specific
information such as what printcap file to use, as well as
descriptions of all the services that the server is to provide. See smb.conf for more information. The default configuration file name is determined at compile time. - -l|--log-basename=logdirectory
- Base directory name for log/debug files. The extension ".progname"
will be appended (e.g. log.smbclient, log.smbd, etc...). The log
file is never removed by the client. - -N|--no-pass
- If specified, this parameter suppresses the normal password prompt
from the client to the user. This is useful when accessing a
service that does not require a password. - Unless a password is specified on the command line or this
parameter is specified, the client will request a password. - If a password is specified on the command line and this option is
also defined the password on the command line will be silently
ingnored and no password will be used. - -k|--kerberos
- Try to authenticate with kerberos. Only useful in an Active
Directory environment. - -C|--use-ccache
- Try to use the credentials cached by winbind.
- -A|--authentication-file=filename
- This option allows you to specify a file from which to read the
username and password used in the connection. The format of the
file is
username = <value>
password = <value>
domain = <value> - Make certain that the permissions on the file restrict access from unwanted users.
- -U|--user=username[%password]
- Sets the SMB username or username and password.
- If %password is not specified, the user will be prompted. The
client will first check the USER environment variable, then the LOGNAME variable and if either exists, the string is uppercased. If these environmental variables are not found, the username GUEST is used. - A third option is to use a credentials file which contains the
plaintext of the username and password. This option is mainly
provided for scripts where the admin does not wish to pass the
credentials on the command line or via environment variables. If
this method is used, make certain that the permissions on the file restrict access from unwanted users. See the -A for more details. - Be cautious about including passwords in scripts. Also, on many
systems the command line of a running process may be seen via the
ps command. To be safe always allow rpcclient to prompt for a
password and type it in directly.
QUOTA_SET_COMAND
The format of an the QUOTA_SET_COMMAND is an operation name followed by
a set of parameters specific to that operation.
- To set user quotas for the user specified by -u or for the current
username: - UQLIM:<username>:<softlimit>/<hardlimit>
- To set the default quotas for a share:
FSQLIM:<softlimit>/<hardlimit>- To change the share quota settings:
FSQFLAGS:QUOTA_ENABLED/DENY_DISK/LOG_SOFTLIMIT/LOG_HARD_LIMIT- All limits are specified as a number of bytes.
EXIT STATUS
The smbcquotas program sets the exit status depending on the success or
otherwise of the operations performed. The exit status may be one of
the following values.
If the operation succeeded, smbcquotas returns an exit status of 0. If
smbcquotas couldn't connect to the specified server, or when there was
an error getting or setting the quota(s), an exit status of 1 is
returned. If there was an error parsing any command line arguments, an
exit status of 2 is returned.
VERSION
This man page is correct for version 3 of the Samba suite.
AUTHOR
The original Samba software and related utilities were created by
Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed by the Samba Team as an Open
Source project similar to the way the Linux kernel is developed.
- smbcquotas was written by Stefan Metzmacher.