Win2k -> Samba 2.2.2 for IRIX

[Carrie Knox]

Hello,

I've been searching through the Samba archives attempting to
find a resolution to intermittent Win2k -> Samba 2.2.2 for
IRIX  share failures.  It seems that there have been
numerous failures similar to mine reported with various
versions of Samba and various OS's, but I've been unable to
find a workable resolution.

Intermittently when connecting to a Samba share from Win2k
systems I receive the error "The specified network name is
no longer available".    After several (numerous) retries,
the share will eventually be available, but not for long.
It eventually disconnects again with these errors logged.
[2001/12/14 09:52:43, 0] lib/util_sock.c:(1036)
  getpeername failed. Error was Invalid argument
[2001/12/14 09:52:43, 0] lib/util_sock.c:(540)
  write_socket_data: write failure. Error = Broken pipe
[2001/12/14 09:52:43, 0] lib/util_sock.c:(563)
  write_socket: Error writing 4 bytes to socket 11: ERRNO =
Broken pipe
[2001/12/14 09:52:43, 0] lib/util_sock.c:(727)
  Error writing 4 bytes to client. -1. (Broken pipe)

At the same time,  there is absolutely no problem connecting

to the same share from Windows NT4 systems.

I'm currently running Samba 2.2.2 on an IRIX 6.5.9m server.

I decided to try using something other than the default
netbios name (dns name) in my smb.conf file and low and
behold the Win2k systems have  no problems connecting to the
share as long as the netbios name is different than the dns
hostname.

Does anyone have experience with this Win2k -> Samba
behavior?
Thanks,

Carrie