When running "man --warnings" on smb.conf.5, it gives: bubulle@mykerinos:~/src/debian/samba/samba-3.2.0pre3/docs/manpages> man --warnings -l smb.conf.5 >/dev/null iconv: Séquence d'échappement illégale à la position 185641 <standard input>:2894: warning: `/configure' not defined That results in missing bits of information in "get quota command": get quota command (G) 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 with was used and a working quota api was found in the system. which should be something like: get quota command (G) 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 with ./configure --with-sys-quotas\. Or on linux when ./configure --with-quotas was used and a working quota api was found in the system.
Fixed in v3-0-test, v3-2-test, v3-2-stable and v3-3-test (04e2470e2eeef). Fix will be included in 3.2.0rc2. Thanks for reporting! Closing out bug report.