binding with groups > 16 on solaris ?

David Collier-Brown David.Collier-Brown at Sun.COM
Mon Feb 28 13:35:32 GMT 2005


jg wrote:
> Running into a issue on Solaris 9 using samba 3.0.11. 

	Yes, Solaris 9 indeed sets NGROUPS_MAX to 16	
	I haven't tested 10 (yet!)


>                                                  I am unable to
> bind as a user that has > 16 groups.  Many of the threads that I have
> seen surrounding this discuss this problem on linux such as :
> 
> http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2004-September/037231.html
>  which resulted in a patch @
> http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2004-September/037347.html
> 
> I have looked at the 3.0.11 code and this patch is in
> windbind_nss_linux.c and the winbind_nss_solaris.c does wrap that
> call; however, it appears that I am always bound to the default on the
> machine of 16 it seems as it does not work.  I cannot set NGROUPS_MAX
> to 32 as that causes issues with NFS (tried and failed  - for
> additional info see
> http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2004-May/085354.html ) .
> 
> There is also this bug https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1184
> and a patch, but it is unclear if this is my problem.
> 
> Anyone have any insight?  Thanks in advance,

	Sorry, I rarely possess insight (:--))

--dave
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