NIS, Samba

[Gerald W. Carter]

Alexandre Lecuyer wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have samba 2.1 (last month cvs) working as a PDC
> on a linux machine.
> Everything works fine except for the connection (opening
> a session), which is very slow.
> Login could take up to 5minutes.
> Making the samba server a slave NIS server helped a lot,
> however it still gets extremely slow when several (>20) users
> try to login at the same time.
> This problem occurs only when there are many users in the NIS
> passwd file/smbpasswd.
> (there are about 300 workstations entries, and 1800 users entry).

This has to do with the passwd caching code.  Remove it.  Look for 

	hashed_getpwnam()

calls in the source.  If you need help, contact me offline.



Cheers,
jerry
________________________________________________________________________
                            Gerald ( Jerry ) Carter	
Engineering Network Services                           Auburn University 
jerry at eng.auburn.edu             http://www.eng.auburn.edu/users/cartegw

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