Two Samba Questions

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

I've got an Etch box running Samba and sharing out home directories. The 
relevant section of smb.conf is this:

[global]
        workgroup = ACU
        invalid users = root
        browseable = No
        include = /etc/samba/dhcp.conf

[homes]
        comment = Home Directories
        invalid users = root, daemon, bin, sys, lp, smtp, uucp, nobody, 
sync, games, man, mail, news, proxy, www-data, backup, list, irc, gnats
        valid users = %S
        read only = No
        create mask = 0775
        directory mask = 0775

I've had Macintosh users who have been connecting fine, but one recently 
upgraded their Mac to Leopard (the most recent version of OS/X), and now 
can no longer connect. I tested it on another Mac upgraded to Leopard 
and see the same problem. We can connect with other samba utilities, 
such as smbclient and smbutil.

After tinkering a bit, I've discovered that if I change the "browseable" 
setting to "Yes", I can connect.

Question 1:
Does this indicate a bug in the way the new OS/X handles samba 
connections, or did I have my smb.conf incorrectly configured to begin 
with? (Shouldn't "browseable" simply mean you can't browse anonymously 
to the share via the "Network Neighborhood"-type tools?)

Question 2:
As part of my testing, I ran "smbutil view //myserver" as well as 
"smbclient -L //myserver" and gave the utils my username/password, and 
both utilities reported a "homes" share as well as a "westk" share, both 
pointing to "Home directories". Can I assume these are the same share, 
and that the "westk" share is just an alias to the "homes" share defined 
in the smb.conf file? If so, is there any official documentation where 
this is actually stated - where it says specifically that you can 
connect to a home share with the path "\\server\homes" or with the path 
"\\server\username"?

Thanks!

--
Kent