Long machine names...

[Tim Winders]

On Thu, 21 May 1998, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:

> >  A typical unix system cannot
> > have a uid larger than 65534 (or something like that).  If the key is to
> > keep rids unique, why not have samba generate the rid using a number that
> > is greater than the largest possible uid?  If you do that, you don't have
> > to worry about duplicate uid/rid conficts etc.  I am sure I am missing
> > something here and you/jeremy will point it out... 
> 
> yes: you need a mapping function.

These trust accounts do not NEED a real unix account.  So, what are you
mapping? 

=== Tim

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