James Wilkinson wrote: > What are you attempting to talk to? > Unix and Unix-like systems used to use 16 bit user numbers because > no-one expected a Unix box to have more than 60 000 users. > > Unfortunately, with centralised authentication schemes and large > organisations, that assumption became false: it did become theoretically > possible that any one of 100 000 users might log into a Unix computer. > So user IDs (and group IDs) were extended to 32 bits. Having a nfsnobody > user in the middle of umpteen-thousand normal user IDs was considered > confusing, so it was moved. > > There are still some operating systems around that haven't changed > (often due to compatibility concerns). > > In your case, either you'll have to limit Fedora to 60 000 users and use > 65534 as the nfsnobody userID, or you'll have to reconfigure the "other" > computer(s) to use 32 bit userIDs. > > Hope this helps, > > James. yes sir. thanks james. i do appreciate the explanation and it makes sense. but if i have 2 servers, identical fc installations with the default 32 bit number, i get this -2 is too big error. i guess that's the root of the problem. i thought i might be missing something else in my config that was leading to that. putting it at 65534 makes things work instantly, which is what i'll do since i am no where near 100,000 users :) -- Anthony - http://messinet.com - http://messinet.com/~amessina/gallery 8F89 5E72 8DF0 BCF0 10BE 9967 92DC 35DC B001 4A4E
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