[Samba] Solaris username character limit issues.

[Paul Gienger]

Assuming that you are using a recent version of Solaris (were you saying 
Solaris 8, or implying an 8 char limit?), I can assure you that there is 
no 'standard' character limit, or at least not one that you're running 
into.  Maybe if you post your full smb.conf we could see if there isn't 
something else misconfigured.

Nicholas Majeran wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I've compiled Samba 3.0.4 with Heimdal 0.6.2 and all of the other
>trimmings to join and ADS tree, which I have successfully done.  Winbind
>correctly pulls all of the username and group information from the ADS
>tree and all is good.
>
>However...
>
>I seem to be running into a wall with the wonderful Solaris 8 character
>username / groupname limit.  Usernames with spaces or names longer than 8
>characters show up fine when I do a getent [passwd|group], and I can
>ch{own,grp} using the GNU versions of those utilities a file to something
>like 'Domain Admins' without any trouble.
>
>But, if I do something like:
>
>[myshare]
>path = /attach/blah
>valid users = "TEAMSTER/Jimmy Hoffa" @"TEAMSTER/Domain Admins"
>
>I will be denied access if:
>-- I try to connect as TEAMSTER\Jimmy Hoffa
>-- I try to connect as member of the group TEAMSTER\Domain Admins if that
>   username in the group has a username longer than 8 characters.
>
>I will be granted access if:
>-- I create a UNIX user called 'jimmhoff' and put something like
>   jimmhoff = 'Jimmy Hoffa' in a username.map file.
>-- I connect as a Domain Admin that has a username 8 characters or shorter
>   (with no spaces).
>
>There also seems to be some issues with username.map and reverse mappings
>with respect to group membership on the ADS tree, i.e. if "Jimmy Hoffa"
>was a member of Domain Admins, and I had it mapped to UNIX user
>'jimmhoff', no luck.
>
>And, the ownership and the group settings on the directory are
>
>drwxrwxr-x     Jimmy Hoffa Domain Admins 512 Jul 10 15:54 blah
>
>Am I stuck with the limitation or is there something I'm missing??
>
>Thanks for any help.
>
>Nick Majeran
>
>  
>

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