samba - Nov 2001 - netbios name problem

Hi All,

   We are running Samba 2.0.7 on Solaris 5.7 server. It is registered with
WINS under 3 different names ("netbios name" and two "netbios
aliases").
  
  Two of the names always work fine. We can do "net view" against
those names
and they always respond with correct list of shares and always allow proper
connections to those shares. For some reason the third name behaves
differently.
Some times it works fine, but some times (so far I couldn't find any
correlation
of this behavior with any other events) when I do "net view" against
that name
it returns "System error 5 has occurred. Access is denied." message.
The other
two
names still work at the same time. After some time the "broken" name
starts
working
again...

  Initially we saw this problem on terminal servers only, but recently I ran
across
of a similar (I guess) problem on one of our workstations. In that case the
"net view"
against that "broken" name still worked, but it would show only one
share
(instead of
expected two).

  Does anybody know what could cause such behavior and what would be a fix for
it ? 

Thanks for your help,

Paul.

I've recently been tasked with migrating all our intranet file systems from
nac servers to a Sun Enterprise 10K.  The nac servers were providing CIFS
services to our W2K Domain servers, but I'm setting up Samba 2.2.5 on the
sun Enterprise 10K running Solaris 7.  Its gone smoothly so far, but I'm new
to Samba and have experienced one problem in particular.  When I assign a
netbios name to the Samba server and start Samba it appears in the W2K
domain with the netbios name, but an error occurrs when I attempt to access
the share -> "Path not found".  If I remove the netbios name and
let it come
up with it's hostname instead everything works fine.  Any suggestions??
Also if anyone could suggest a good book on Samba that covers a lot of W2K
issues rather than NT issues I would appreciate it.  I have O'Reilly's
Learning Samba, but it referrs mostly to NT issues.

Thanks,

Bryon