[Samba] Red cross on network drives

[Susan McConnell]

We have a number of Windows 2000 Professional clients connected to shared
drives hosted on a Linux server running Samba. Within Windows Explorer,
each Samba drive is shown with a red cross on it, indicating (I believe)
that the network drive is not connected. However, it can be accessed, read
from and written to without problem.

Why is the drive shown as disconnected, and what can be done to show its
connected status correctly?

I've found references to this problem online, but I've not been able to
find a solution.

Thank you for any help.
Sue