From: Frank van Maarseveen <frankvm@xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: nfs v3: chown not permitted
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 10:18:51 +0100
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On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 04:06:43PM +0100, Olaf Kirch wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 03:39:22PM +0100, foo@posern.org wrote:
> > me@jolie:/mnt$ groups
> > mine root adm disk lp dialout cdrom floppy audio www-data src video
> > prg data mp3 maildata newmp3 wg users lpadmin
> 
> You have too many groups. SunRPC AUTH_UNIX authentication will transport
> up to 16 groups, and "users" is item #19 in your list. "chgrp mp3"
> would probably work, but users doesn't because the NFS server doesn't
> see it in your list of groups.

The Linux 2.4 NFS client patch to bypass this limitation can be found here:

	http://frankvm.xs4all.nl/nfs-ngroups/

-- 
Frank


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