samba - Jan 2004 - Samba bug or by design - browsing root

Dear Technical Support,

We have a user who just accidentally mapped a network drive by entering
\\hostname\root and it worked eventhough root is not defined for sharing in
smb.conf file.  Now that we know, we are able to browse the root level on
the UNIX server just by keying in \\hostname\root from IE or Windows
explorer.  Is this a setting/configuration problem or by design for samba?
Is there a way to avoid this since we do want users to be able to browse
root (/).  Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated.

I'm currently running on the following environment:
OS = DGUX R4.20MU06
Samba version = 2.2.8a

Thanks,

Van Ta

On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 Van_N_Ta@Keane.com wrote:
> Dear Technical Support,
>
> We have a user who just accidentally mapped a network drive by entering
> \\hostname\root and it worked eventhough root is not defined for sharing in
> smb.conf file.  Now that we know, we are able to browse the root level on
> the UNIX server just by keying in \\hostname\root from IE or Windows
> explorer.  Is this a setting/configuration problem or by design for samba?
> Is there a way to avoid this since we do want users to be able to browse
> root (/).  Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated.
>
> I'm currently running on the following environment:
> OS = DGUX R4.20MU06
> Samba version = 2.2.8a
Your Samba server is very definitely not configured correctly. Please
contact me off-line and I will try to help you to solve your problem.

Cheers,
John T.
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John H Terpstra
Email: jht@samba.org