[Samba] initialise groups winbind making samba useless

Edward Mann ed.mann at choicepoint.net
Fri Nov 1 00:12:00 GMT 2002


Jerry, 

thanks for the info, you are right there is a limit of only 32. I am
going to see what problems it would cause if i changed this to something
a little higher.

Thanks again.

On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 17:56, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
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> On 31 Oct 2002, Edward Mann wrote:
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> > I have posted with this error/bug before, so now i am back at it again.
> > I am having a problem with samba, winbindd and groups. If a users is in
> > a large number of groups i get the following error when they try to
> > connect to the samba server
> > 
> > Oct 31 18:00:44 localhost smbd[11086]: [2002/10/31 18:00:44, 0]
> > smbd/sec_ctx.c:initialise_groups(244) 
> > Oct 31 18:00:44 localhost smbd[11086]:   Unable to initgroups. Error was
> > Operation not permitted 
> ...
> > What other info do you need to help fix this problem. Even if someone
> > would write me back and tell me that i'm totally screwed, that would be
> > better than nothing.
> > 
> > I will say that this is the first time that i have posted a question to
> > the net and no one could respond to it. Is this something that only i am
> > having problems with?
> 
> Isn't there a limit of 32 secondary rgoups under linux 2.4 ?
> Trying to remember exactly...
> 
> 
> 
> 
> cheers, jerry
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