[Fwd: usermap file error]

Alexander Strauss strauss at ti.com
Thu Mar 16 16:01:35 GMT 2000


Jerry,

thanks for your tip - but the procedure you showed up doesn't work.
Probably it's not possible to map an already mapped name again...

Regards,
Alex

Gerald Carter wrote:
> 
> Alexander Strauss wrote:
> >
> > Now, every account added since the 112th is not recognized by Samba
> > anymore ans authentication is rejected. It's not easy possible for us to
> > create a 2nd Unix account for splitting the total number of NT accounts,
> > so I want to ask whether there's any solution to get it work for the
> > additional NT accounts or if it might be possible to create a Samba
> > patch...
> [...deleted...]
> 
> without looking at the code, my guess is you've hit the maximum
> length of an internal string or something.  Try breaking the
> mapping line into multiple entries (much like NIS netgroups).
> for example
> 
> project1 = .....
> project2 = .....
> projects = project1 project2
> 
> Cheers,
> jerry
> ________________________________________________________________________
>                             Gerald ( Jerry ) Carter
> Engineering Network Services                           Auburn University
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