1<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>smbcquotas</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="samba.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.71.0"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="refentry" lang="en"><a name="smbcquotas.1"></a><div class="titlepage"></div><div class="refnamediv"><h2>Name</h2><p>smbcquotas — Set or get QUOTAs of NTFS 5 shares</p></div><div class="refsynopsisdiv"><h2>Synopsis</h2><div class="cmdsynopsis"><p><code class="literal">smbcquotas</code> {//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]</p></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id259376"></a><h2>DESCRIPTION</h2><p>This tool is part of the <a href="samba.7.html"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">samba</span>(7)</span></a> suite.</p><p>The <code class="literal">smbcquotas</code> program manipulates NT Quotas on SMB file shares. </p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id259404"></a><h2>OPTIONS</h2><p>The following options are available to the <code class="literal">smbcquotas</code> program. </p><div class="variablelist"><dl><dt><span class="term">-u user</span></dt><dd><p> Specifies the user of whom the quotas are get or set. 2 By default the current user's username will be used.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-L</span></dt><dd><p>Lists all quota records of the share.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-F</span></dt><dd><p>Show the share quota status and default limits.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-S QUOTA_SET_COMMAND</span></dt><dd><p>This command sets/modifies quotas for a user or on the share, 3 depending on the QUOTA_SET_COMMAND parameter which is described later.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-n</span></dt><dd><p>This option displays all QUOTA information in numeric 4 format. The default is to convert SIDs to names and QUOTA limits 5 to a readable string format.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-t</span></dt><dd><p> 6 Don't actually do anything, only validate the correctness of the arguments. 7 </p></dd><dt><span class="term">-v</span></dt><dd><p> 8 Be verbose. 9 </p></dd><dt><span class="term">-h|--help</span></dt><dd><p>Print a summary of command line options. 10</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-V</span></dt><dd><p>Prints the program version number. 11</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-s <configuration file></span></dt><dd><p>The file specified contains the 12configuration details required by the server. The 13information in this file includes server-specific 14information such as what printcap file to use, as well 15as descriptions of all the services that the server is 16to provide. See <code class="filename">smb.conf</code> for more information. 17The default configuration file name is determined at 18compile time.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-d|--debuglevel=level</span></dt><dd><p><em class="replaceable"><code>level</code></em> is an integer 19from 0 to 10. The default value if this parameter is 20not specified is zero.</p><p>The higher this value, the more detail will be 21logged to the log files about the activities of the 22server. At level 0, only critical errors and serious 23warnings will be logged. Level 1 is a reasonable level for 24day-to-day running - it generates a small amount of 25information about operations carried out.</p><p>Levels above 1 will generate considerable 26amounts of log data, and should only be used when 27investigating a problem. Levels above 3 are designed for 28use only by developers and generate HUGE amounts of log 29data, most of which is extremely cryptic.</p><p>Note that specifying this parameter here will 30override the <a class="indexterm" name="id260127"></a> parameter 31in the <code class="filename">smb.conf</code> file.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-l|--logfile=logdirectory</span></dt><dd><p>Base directory name for log/debug files. The extension 32<code class="constant">".progname"</code> will be appended (e.g. log.smbclient, 33log.smbd, etc...). The log file is never removed by the client. 34</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-N</span></dt><dd><p>If specified, this parameter suppresses the normal 35password prompt from the client to the user. This is useful when 36accessing a service that does not require a password. </p><p>Unless a password is specified on the command line or 37this parameter is specified, the client will request a 38password.</p><p>If a password is specified on the command line and this 39option is also defined the password on the command line will 40be silently ingnored and no password will be used.</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-k</span></dt><dd><p> 41Try to authenticate with kerberos. Only useful in 42an Active Directory environment. 43</p></dd><dt><span class="term">-A|--authentication-file=filename</span></dt><dd><p>This option allows 44you to specify a file from which to read the username and 45password used in the connection. The format of the file is 46</p><pre class="programlisting"> 47username = <value> 48password = <value> 49domain = <value> 50</pre><p>Make certain that the permissions on the file restrict 51access from unwanted users. </p></dd><dt><span class="term">-U|--user=username[%password]</span></dt><dd><p>Sets the SMB username or username and password. </p><p>If %password is not specified, the user will be prompted. The 52client will first check the <code class="envar">USER</code> environment variable, then the 53<code class="envar">LOGNAME</code> variable and if either exists, the 54string is uppercased. If these environmental variables are not 55found, the username <code class="constant">GUEST</code> is used. </p><p>A third option is to use a credentials file which 56contains the plaintext of the username and password. This 57option is mainly provided for scripts where the admin does not 58wish to pass the credentials on the command line or via environment 59variables. If this method is used, make certain that the permissions 60on the file restrict access from unwanted users. See the 61<em class="parameter"><code>-A</code></em> for more details. </p><p>Be cautious about including passwords in scripts. Also, on 62many systems the command line of a running process may be seen 63via the <code class="literal">ps</code> command. To be safe always allow 64<code class="literal">rpcclient</code> to prompt for a password and type 65it in directly. </p></dd></dl></div></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id300493"></a><h2>QUOTA_SET_COMAND</h2><p>The format of an the QUOTA_SET_COMMAND is an operation 66 name followed by a set of parameters specific to that operation. 67 </p><p>To set user quotas for the user specified by -u or for the 68 current username: </p><p><strong class="userinput"><code> 69 UQLIM:<username>:<softlimit>/<hardlimit> 70 </code></strong></p><p>To set the default quotas for a share: 71 </p><p><strong class="userinput"><code> 72 FSQLIM:<softlimit>/<hardlimit> 73 </code></strong></p><p> 74 To change the share quota settings: 75 </p><p><strong class="userinput"><code> 76 FSQFLAGS:QUOTA_ENABLED/DENY_DISK/LOG_SOFTLIMIT/LOG_HARD_LIMIT 77 </code></strong></p><p>All limits are specified as a number of bytes.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id300541"></a><h2>EXIT STATUS</h2><p>The <code class="literal">smbcquotas</code> program sets the exit status 78 depending on the success or otherwise of the operations performed. 79 The exit status may be one of the following values. </p><p>If the operation succeeded, smbcquotas returns an exit 80 status of 0. If <code class="literal">smbcquotas</code> couldn't connect to the specified server, 81 or when there was an error getting or setting the quota(s), an exit status 82 of 1 is returned. If there was an error parsing any command line 83 arguments, an exit status of 2 is returned. </p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id300570"></a><h2>VERSION</h2><p>This man page is correct for version 3.0 of the Samba suite.</p></div><div class="refsect1" lang="en"><a name="id300580"></a><h2>AUTHOR</h2><p>The original Samba software and related utilities 84 were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed 85 by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar 86 to the way the Linux kernel is developed.</p><p><code class="literal">smbcquotas</code> was written by Stefan Metzmacher.</p></div></div></body></html> 87