[Samba] Number of Users

[Gerald Carter]

On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Markus Schabel wrote:

> After no response from the list I tried searching in the source. rid is
> defined as uint32 (at least as parameter in pdb_ldap.c; I haven't looked
> further), which means that I can have up to 2.147.483.648 users?
> 
> true or false?

False.  smbd uses that last bit to distinguish between a user and group.














cheers, jerry
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