Samba Fileserver at daily use?

[Matthew Keller]

Doug VanLeuven wrote:
> 
> 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.

	No, not NIS. Straight /etc/group file.

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