Thank you. I used the opportunity to upgrade to 3.0.7 and applied the patch. It 
appears to work perfectly. Do you know if this will be in the next distribution?

Phil

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From: Andreas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 2:41 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: [Samba] Samba with winbindd AD Group access limit problem


On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 04:22:04PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm running Samba 3.0.2 on Solaris using winbindd to allow me to security
> tailor access to subdirectories on a Samba share. We assign the
> subdirectories within a Samba share to an Active Directory group name. This
> generally works fine but I am having user access issues from the Win2K / Win
> XP workstations that have mapped the share. The problem seems to be related
> to the number of groups / total length of group names the user is assigned
> to in Active Directory. If there are too many groups (or the aggregate
> length of all group names is too long), the user cannot access the secured
> directories even though they are a member of the group in AD. If I keep
> reducing the number of assigned groups in AD, the user can, at some point,
> gain access to the directories.
> 
> Can someone tell me the following:
> 1. What limitation is causing this problem?
> 2. How to I remove the limitation?

I had this problem. Try this patch (for 3.0.7, I don't know if it applies to 3.0.2):


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