ideas for optimizations with large groups

[Chris Wakelin]

I've just compiled the CVS version of 2.2.x and it seems to have fixed the 
problem. I'd been merrily patching each new version of Samba as it came out 
;-)

Thanks,
Chris

On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 06:10:42 +0000 jra at dp.samba.org wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 11:24:23AM +0000, Chris Wakelin wrote:
> > We had big problems with an upgrade to Samba 2.2.3a on Solaris 8 due 
> > to this groups change. Samba 2.2.2 was fine, but had occassional 
> > oplock problems (hence the desire to upgrade). We have a large number 
> > (~1000) of (sometimes large) NIS groups.
> > 
> > I've patched our version of Samba 2.2.3a in lib/util_getent.c 
> > get_users_in_group() commenting out the line :-
> > 
> > if (strchr(gname,*lp_winbind_separator())) {
> > 
> > (and the lines following the "if" statement) so that the old 
> > getgrnam() calls are used instead (as they are for winbindd).
> > 
> > This fixes the problem for us, but I'd like strongly to support 
> > David's suggestion that the change to using getgrent() be made a 
> > compile-time option for Tru64 only.
> 
> It took some time, but I finally got to this, sorry :-).
> 
> Jeremy.

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