Shoot! You're right about that. What I did is completely broken and works 
simply by chance.

I guess I'll have to figure out how to apply the patch.

Thanks!

Jim

On May 21, 2012, at 5:45 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote:

> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 5:40 PM, O'Dell James <[email protected]> wrote:
> Has anyone else experienced problems getting the latest macports version of 
> Samba working.
> 
> After some poking around, I discovered that there is an OS X 10.7 patch 
> lurking around that
> increases the values for MAX_NGROUPS (Or some such name in the Samba sources).
> 
> It seems as if the OS X value of:
> 
> #define _SC_NGROUPS_MAX                  4
> 
> In unistd.h is not large enough to contain the complete group list.
> 
> If they're using that as the size, they are broken.  It's not a size, it's 
> the code given to sysconf() to have it return the maximum number of groups.
> 
> Rather than change the SAMBA code, I just upped the value above to 32, 
> rebuilt the
> samba 3.6.3 package and all was copacetic.
> 
> So now invoking sysconf(_SC_NGROUPS_MAX) returns instead what 
> sysconf(_SC_MEMORY_PROTECTION) does?
> 
> -- 
> brandon s allbery                                      [email protected]
> wandering unix systems administrator (available)     (412) 475-9364 vm/sms
> 

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