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...but not the same name. In general, the sub-groups have a number at the end of the name to differentiate them. In total, there are 16,000 users in our passwd map. The (expurgated) NIS group map for one of these would look a lot like this: usa:*:21: usa1:*:21:user1,...,user20 usa2:*:21:user21,...,user40 ..... user235:*:21: (That's right - over 200 sub-groups) Now that I'm trying to grant Samba access to some of our on-site foreign national employees and contractors, this is coming back to haunt us. For reasons I won't delve into, this requires securing shares via the "valid...