why so many broken pipes?

[iddwb]

Using samba 2.0.7  on both FreeBSd and Linux.  This error is all over the
event logs.  It doesn't seem catastrophic as samba keeps running.  But why
do I get it?  and can I make it go away?

[2001/02/27 17:14:10, 0] lib/util_sock.c:write_socket_data(540)
  write_socket_data: write failure. Error = Broken pipe
[2001/03/02 15:58:57, 0] lib/util_sock.c:write_socket_data(540)
  write_socket_data: write failure. Error = Broken pipe
[2001/03/30 18:13:47, 0] lib/util_sock.c:write_socket_data(540)
  write_socket_data: write failure. Error = Broken pipe