Initgroups errors.on OSX with WinXP

[Andrew Bartlett]

The DJ wrote:
> 
> To answer part of my questions.
> Nobody is the default group/user for guest access.
> In OSX both those have a gid/pid of -1 This is not allowed by the function
> winbind_initgroups in smbd/sec_ctx.c
> 
> This error never showed up before 10.1.3

Then tell apple to fix their OS (guest account as -1 is a *really* bad
idea).  In the meantime chose a new 'guest user = ' in your smb.conf.

> BTW. This function is called winbind_initgroups. I don't have winbind
> compiled, so why is this. If this is a function that is not only used by
> winbind but also by the base smbd, then I think it should not be prefixed
> with winbind.

It is winbind_initgroups becouse it *can* call winbind, and you can't
call it just 'initgroups' becouse then you would clash.

Andrew Bartlett

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