[NTLUG:Discuss] Three unrelated questions

[Leroy Tennison]

Getting failures sending to the mailing list (just saw Chris' message) 
so I'm going to try an "all or nothing" approach.

1) What makes the user 'root' special?  Is it because the kernel treates 
UID zero or the name 'root' differently?  If not, what is it?  I'm part 
"just curious" and part wanting to know what would happened if I renamed 
root.

2) What are the significant differences between FC3 or FC4 and Red Hat 
9?  I just did an FC3 install and, taking a quick look, didn't see much 
different.  What am I missing?

3) Anyone know of a way using Samba client on a Linux PC to get "network 
mappings" to remote SMB servers without having to supply the password 
for each one (no convenience) or store it in clear text in a local file 
(bad security)?