How are they mapping? Someone created a share called ROOT here which is
mapped to the '/' directory. The department likes it because it
simplifies stuff for them. Although telling the user to map to
\\myi\root\thisdir\thatdir\anotherdir\yetanotherdir\whereyouwanttobe
instead of \\myi\whereyouwanttobe can be rough for the users. Yes,
mapping to root just makes it easier for everyone to step on their winkie
because they can go where they shouldn't.
There's also a performance consideration with mapping to root, especially
when migrating to Windows 7.
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas15197341657f9f57e86257655005736ff
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Sharing the root file system (share path of /) is not recommended
when NetServer drives will be mapped from Windows 7. A situation has been
seen where Windows 7 was indexing everything under root, and when it began
to index /QNTC/*, NetServer was overloaded and experienced delays. Because
the /QNTC file system is on the root of the IFS, this problem is not
encountered when sharing at a level other then root.
Note that neither is sharing of the /QNTC file system recommended. QNTC is
the file system that allows an IBM i system to access PCs on the network.
Rather than having a client PC access the IBM i (using NetServer) and then
access other PCs from there, it is recommended that a PC that has a need
to access another PC on the network do so directly (bypassing the need to
connect to the NetServer).
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Rob Berendt
midrange.com
