[Samba] problem saving word documents

[Andrew Bartlett]

Johan Coenen wrote:
> 
> At 22:35 11/09/2002 +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > > - Panic: failed to set gid
> > > ( lib/util_sec.c:assertgid(111)
> > >    lib/util.c:smb_panic(1092) )
> >
> >Fix this.  If samba every 'panics' then it is terminating itself with
> >extreme prejudice.  You *will* corrupt files - if your program doesn't
> >like having a half-rewritten file.
> >
> >Samba is changing to a new group id, but when it double-checked, it had
> >not changed.  Do any of your users or groups have negitive GIDs?
> 
> No,
> The full message we get is the following:
> 
> Sep 10 16:14:55 ls-aiv-03 smbd[15088]: [2002/09/10 16:14:55, 0]
> lib/util_sec.c:assert_gid(111)
> Sep 10 16:14:55 ls-aiv-03 smbd[15088]:   Failed to set gid privileges to
> (-1,79999999) now set to (0,0) uid=(0,0)

Find out what's got that -1 gid.  That is your issue, I think.  Or it
might be that your set regid doesn't like that large a group.  Either
way, chase this down before you play silly games with irrelevent
paramaters (strict sync etc are not relevent to your issue)

> Sep 10 16:14:55 ls-aiv-03 smbd[15088]: [2002/09/10 16:14:55, 0]
> lib/util.c:smb_panic(1092)
> Sep 10 16:14:55 ls-aiv-03 smbd[15088]:   PANIC: failed to set gid
> 
> All our users have the same primary gid: 79999999
> The uid of our users are in the range 10000 - 200000
> Our machine accounts all have gid = 49999999
> uid's of our machine accounts are in the range 900-1000
> 
> We left our guest account at the default 'nobody'
> uid/gid of nobody is 99/99
> 
> But we don't make any explicit use of the guest-account in our smb.conf file.
> 
> Johan

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