W2k -> Solaris: Cannot connect to port 139

[Michael Kolmodin]

Excuse a newbie trying to install and use samba. But I have been
trying hard and eventually reached a point where a contact with
the technical gurus seem to be the only way. Ignore me, spam me
or do something worse if I'm wrong...

In short: I have portable which I move between my office
and my home. At office, everything is ok. At home, I occasionally
get samba working. However, after rebooting the PC it invariably
fails. My home is just a Solaris server and my W2k client, nothing else.

TCP-IP is ok, so is NMB name lookup according to the official
Diagnosis.txt tests and my own judgment for what it's worth.

The problem seems to be that
I cannot connect to port 139 on the server from the PC with
'telnet name-of-server 139'. At my office I get a connection to
working samba servers. At home, I get a connection to all TCP-based
services besides netbios-ssn/139 which most often fails without any
trace in the logs. It always fails direct after a PC reboot. When
it occasionally succeeds, most often after a long wait time, next
attempt fails.

 From the server, I can connect to 139 w/o any problem (!)

The problem exists even with a minimal smb.conf less than 10
lines. Basically I trust it since I now and then have been able
to mount disks, print etc.

Have tried version 2.0.7, 2.2.1a and CVS head trunk with same result.
Client updated to SP2, no change. Solaris 8. And yes, I've
compiled samba on my machine ;-) Also tried both stand-alone and inetd.

Is this a bug in samba, Solaris and/or me? I just wonder...
If anyone has a hint it feels like it would save me from becoming insane.

--michael