why do we log this error from testparm ?

James Peach jpeach at sgi.com
Tue Apr 12 01:00:04 GMT 2005


On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 05:57:32PM -0500, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
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> 'winbind separator = +' might cause problems with group membership.

smb.conf(5):
...
          Please note that setting this parameter to + causes problems
	  with group membership at least on glibc systems, as the
	  character + is used as a special character for NIS in
	  /etc/group.

I don't know whether this is still true ..

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