[Samba] Word problem with large uid/gid

[Johan Coenen]

At 01:23 26/04/2003 +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
>On Fri, 2003-04-25 at 23:16, Johan Coenen wrote:
> >>
> >> IF   uid or gid of user > 65.535
> >> AND  samba loglevel > 2
> >> THEN         I have problems with saving word documents
> >> errors on client: "disk full" "read-only" etc...
> >>
>
>Not sure about the log level stuff, but try your recent glibc security
>upgrade for the problem :-)

Hi Andrew,
thanks for the reply.

I must admit, the day after we upgraded glibc to 2.2.5-43, we had one site 
where users suddenly had problems with excel documents.
We noticed that that was the only server which had a Samba log level of 3 
(all the other had level 2)
After lowering the log-level, problems went away, so we didn't investigate 
it any further.

I just downgraded glibc to 2.2.5-34 on our test server, did a rebuild of 
Samba, but the problem stays the same.
If uid > 16bit => assert_uid() failures
if gid > 16bit => assert_gid() failures

In our production environment:

Despite the fact that we have many users who are having every now and then 
problems with word, we had three "strange" cases:
- two users started having problems saving word docs right after they 
upgraded from off97 to off2000 (both win2000)
- one user had the same problem right after he upgraded from Win98 to WinXP 
(kept the same office version)
In these three cases, problems went away after lowering their GID's.

Can there be any reason why a change in OS or office-version suddenly 
triggers a GID problem?

Johan