samba - Jun 2002 - problem with libsmbclient making new netbios names

Hello,
  I am having a bit of a problem.  
I am using the samba libraries (libsmbclient.so) to search through the 
network and index shares on different computers.  I am doing this with a 
perl script.  
The problem that I am having is that every time the libraries connect to 
a server it re announces itself with a new netbios name.  The format of 
the name goes like this: smbcnsearchxxxx 
nsearch is the name of the machine and xxxx is replaced by a number that 
gets incremented every time I connect to a host.  So what happens is that 
the WINS server ends up with thousands of entries in its database.  The 
system admins here at iowa state are getting mad at me because I am taking 
up over 21% of the name on the server.
I have a smb.conf file located at: /usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf and also 
one in my ~/.smb/smb.conf file.  Both of them have my netbios name as 
NSEARCH.  

I did a truss on my perl script and the samba libraries are opening up 
the conf file from my home directory.

Here is a copy of the smb.conf file
Any help I can get on this one would be great.

Thanks,
Ryan Grimm

Iowa State University

# Global parameters
[global]
        workgroup = IASTATE
        netbios name = NSEARCH
        server string = SMB stats, please allow
        passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
        passwd chat = *ew*password:* %n\n *e-enter*new*password:* %n\n
        max log size = 50
        os level = 0
        preferred master = False
        local master = No
        domain master = False
        wins server = 129.186.142.179
        lock dir         comment = Network Search
        printing = sysv
        print command 
[homes]
        comment = Home Directories
        read only = No
        browseable = No


[SHARED]
        path = /smbshares
        read only = Yes