Samba Fileserver at daily use?

[Melanie Abbas (CNS staff)]

On Sun, 8 Aug 1999, Doug VanLeuven wrote:

> Adam Williams wrote:
> 
> > > Gerald Carter wrote:
> > >
> > > > ~2,000 users in smbpasswd
> > >
> > > How do you get everyone into "Domain Users" ?
> > > I ran into 1024 byte limitations for the unix side
> > > group line (AIX 4.2) limiting me to around 170
> > > 5 char unix names.
> >
> > Yep, I've had the same problem in AIX 4.2 and AIX 3.2.5,  also bites you if you
> > try to use NIS.
> 
> Have you found a workaround ?

I also have ~2000 users in my smbpasswd file and I am using Solaris 7 with
NIS+.

The group file or group NIS+ table doesn't have to list all the members of
a group in it. It only needs to list groups users are in besides their
primary group.  As long as the passwd file or table lists the primary
group of the user as whatever group you want, you can have as many users
in the same group as you can have on your system. 

However, that only works if you want the group to be the users primary
group. I have very few users in multiple groups, so my group file/table is
relatively small. All my other groups tend to have 12 or less users in
them, so I don't have a problem, however, YMMV.

Melanie Abbas
Systems Administrator
College of Natural Sciences
University of Northern Iowa
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