I have the following configuration: Solaris 9 (patch 112960-10 applied) Samba 3.0.8 (configure --with-ads --with-pam --with-winbind) MIT Kerberos 1.3.5 (configure --enable-dns --enable-dns-for-kdc --enable-dns-for-realm --without-tcl) I am using Samba to share files to our Windows users via a Samba share, security = ads. All the shares work just fine. Here is the relevant section of my smb.conf file: [global] workgroup = FFFC realm = FFFC.COM server string = Fileshare security = ads password server = * log level = 2 log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log min protocol = NT1 time server = Yes change notify timeout = 300 deadtime = 7 socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 load printers = No os level = 99 domain master = No ldap ssl = no idmap uid = 50000-59999 idmap gid = 50000-59999 winbind separator = + winbind cache time = 10 winbind nested groups = Yes hide unreadable = Yes delete veto files = Yes inherit acls = Yes inherit permissions = Yes wins server = 10.1.240.90 10.1.240.91 use spnego = Yes [exlist$] comment = Test share path = /export/smbfiles/exlist create mask = 0777 directory mask = 0777 security mask = 0777 force group = root force user = root writeable = Yes read only = No valid users = FFFC+Citrix_Base write list = FFFC+Citrix_Base veto files /*.?pg/*.avi/favicon.ico/robots.txt/.htaccess/*.wm*/.rhosts/*.rm/*.mp?/*.asf /*.wav/*.?peg/*.midi/*.aif*/*.au/*.as?/*.wpl/ hide files = /Thumbs.db/.*/ dos filetimes = Yes The problem that I am having is that some groups can not be accessed by a `getent group` command. I can see the group with wbinfo: $ wbinfo -g | grep FFFC+Citrix_Base FFFC+Citrix_Base $ wbinfo -n FFFC+Citrix_Base S-1-5-21-393102617-441343358-1233803906-9715 Domain Group (2) $ wbinfo -Y S-1-5-21-393102617-441343358-1233803906-9715 50308 $ wbinfo -G 50308 S-1-5-21-393102617-441343358-1233803906-9715 As you can clearly see, FFFC+Citric_Base is a valid Active Directory group. But when I use `getent`, I get different numbers of groups: $ wbinfo -g | wc -l 327 $ getent group | awk -F: '{print $1}'|wc -l 315 Also, when I try to view the group with a `getent` command, winbindd seems to hang. $ getent group FFFC+Citrix_Base I left it for three hours and it still did not return the group. The group FFFC+Citrix_Base contains a lot of users (more than 500 for sure, possibly more than 1000). This is preventing me from using FFFC+Citrix_Base as a way to control access to this share. Does anyone have any insight or better yet, a solution to this problem? I see that 3.0.9 has just been released. I may try that but looking at the release notes, it does not appear that this problem is addressed by 3.0.9. Thank you in advance. Mark.