Samba Fileserver at daily use?

[Doug VanLeuven]

Matthew Keller wrote:

> Doug VanLeuven wrote:
> >
> > Thanks.  My specific circumstance is a legacy AIX system where users have
> > been split into initial departmental groups with a umask of 002 and sgid on shared
> > directories so departmental groups can freely read/write files.  I can't change this.
> > On the NT side, I have a legacy NT domain where logon scripts run under the
> > permissions of "Domain Users" and need to be applied to everyone authenticated
> > to the domain, but not guests & web users of MS IIS.
> > I'm experimenting with LDAP to define NT groups that are not mapped to any
> > unix group and it seems promising.
> > But I had hoped someone had found a way around the 1024 byte
> > limitation in group lines so we wouldn't have to maintain yet another server.
>
>         The standard way around this in UNIX is to break users into subgroups,
> and shove them into the master group. I'll explain.
>
>         Let's say you add the users to 'Domain Users', but there are too many
> (example below):
> users:1:person1,person2.....person99999
>         You can always add GROUPS to other groups, so you could break it up as
> follows:
> users1:12:person1,person2....person200
> users2:13:person201,person202....person400
> users3:14:person401,.....person500
> .
> .
> .
> users:1:@users1, at users2, at users3......@users9999
>
>         Did that make sense? I'm pretty tired....
>

If you're talking NIS, I'm going to have to research it.  Right now these systems
don't use it.  This is something I can implement though.
I guess I'm being dense or I would have picked that up right away.
Thanks.

-- Doug VanLeuven - 707-545-6933 (voice) 707-545-6945 (fax)
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