The get quota command should only be used whenever there is no operating system API available from the OS that samba can use. This option is only available you have compiled Samba with the --with-sys-quotas option or on Linux with --with-quotas and a working quota api was found in the system. This parameter should specify the path to a script that queries the quota information for the specified user/group for the partition that the specified directory is on. Such a script should take 3 arguments: directory type of query uid of user or gid of group The type of query can be one of : 1 - user quotas 2 - user default quotas (uid = -1) 3 - group quotas 4 - group default quotas (gid = -1) This script should print one line as output with spaces between the arguments. The arguments are: Arg 1 - quota flags (0 = no quotas, 1 = quotas enabled, 2 = quotas enabled and enforced) Arg 2 - number of currently used blocks Arg 3 - the softlimit number of blocks Arg 4 - the hardlimit number of blocks Arg 5 - currently used number of inodes Arg 6 - the softlimit number of inodes Arg 7 - the hardlimit number of inodes Arg 8(optional) - the number of bytes in a block(default is 1024) set quote command /usr/local/sbin/query_quota