yup that's it; i can't believe i didn't realize it myself.
Thanks to you and the others who replied privately.
Christophe
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bjart Kvarme [SMTP:bjart.kvarme@usit.uio.no]
> Sent: Friday, November 19, 1999 2:04 PM
> To: Kalt, Christophe
> Cc: Multiple recipients of list SAMBA
> Subject: Re: \\host\root
>
> On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Kalt, Christophe wrote:
>
> > this is a slight variant of what's in the FAQ
> > (http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/FAQ/#25) because i don't
> > understand why the answer provided there seems to miss the
> > entire point.
> >
> > why does the "root" share exist at all?
> > it certainly isn't part of my smb.conf !
> >
> > Am i missing the obvious?
>
> It probably is from the [homes] share and is the home directory of
> user root.
>
> > what other hidden shares are there?
> > (didn't find anything in the doc about this one)
>
> bin daemon bin sys adm news lp uucp nuucp listen nobody noaccess .....