Netgroup For NFS: Any user limits?

[Mark Duffy_3]

I recently came accross the 256 maximum user issues when NFS exporting a file system to remote PC's.

Netgroup appears to be the way around this and I have tested this successfully (using only 5 clients).

I now plan to put this into a live environment for 2000+ users.

Does anyone know if there are user limits to netgroup once a certain number of remote clients is reached? Any patch requirements?

I have seen a couple of posts on here mentioning character limts and a PHNE patch but these appear to be when using NIS or NIS + with netgroup. In this case, it would just be a straight NFS mount.

Any info appreciated.

Cheers,

Mark

[harry d brown jr]

Why not use samba? NFS requires the PC users to have software installed, whereas Samba or CIFS9000 use the cifs/smb model allowing native network drive mounting.

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Networking/Misc/samba-3.0.2a/

or HP's modified samba: CIFS9000

http://www.software.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=B8724AA

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harry

[Mark Duffy_3]

SAMBA would do the job nicely Harry but unfortunately not standardised where I work as yet.

[harry d brown jr · Accepted solution]

That's too bad!

Anyways, I did a simple search on "netgroup" and found these:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=102488

and of course the MANUAL: http://docs.hp.com/hpux/pdf/B1031-90054.pdf

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harry

[Mark Duffy_3]

Thanks for the PDF. It certainly doesn't mention any user or character limits so looks good.

The forum answer is the one I found before where the patch requirement appears to be related to use with NIS.

Cheers