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NOTE: This patch is no longer necessary on Samba 2.2.8 or newer.
The offical Samba release now works well with LDAP.

Samba getgrnam() fix for 2.2.7a:

Patch:	samba-2.2.7a-getgrnam.patch (682 bytes)
RPM:	samba-2.2.7a-1maj.i386.rpm (11 MB)
Source RPM:	samba-2.2.7a-1maj.src.rpm (5.0 MB)

Samba getgrnam() fix for 2.2.5:

Patch:	samba-2.2.5-getgrnam.patch (682 bytes)
RPM:	samba-2.2.5-2maj.i386.rpm (11 MB)
Source RPM:	samba-2.2.5-2maj.src.rpm (4.1 MB)

This patch removes the use of the getgrent() function that slows LDAP authentication down and replaces it with a getgrnam() routine. This patch is know to break Tru64 UNIX which has a broken getgrnam() function.

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Last Updated: Sun Apr 27 23:16:40 EDT 2003

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NOTE: This patch is no longer necessary on Samba 2.2.8 or newer. The offical Samba release now works well with LDAP.

NOTE: This patch is no longer necessary on Samba 2.2.8 or newer.
The offical Samba release now works well with LDAP.