samba - Nov 2002 - Word97 SR2 error while working on a doc stored on a Samba PDC share

Hi,

I support around 15 Windows 2000 Clients who log into and have home 
directories on a  Samba PDC running under RedHat 7.3.  The version of 
samba I am using is 2.5.5.  All the clients use Word97 SR2 and they all 
get the following error while working on documents stored on their home 
directories on the PDC:

Word failed reading from this file (filename.doc). Please restore the 
network connection or replace the floppy disc and retry.

This error will simply pop up while the user is typing or if the 
document is just left open for a while.  If a user works on a document 
stored on thier PC's local hard drive then the error will not occur. 
 The network is not dropping out at any stage.  Is their a setting in 
the smb.conf that might fix this problem and has anyone else come 
accross this before?  Please help.

Thanks in advance.

-- 
Thomas Pride
Computer Systems Officer
Corporate Information Technology (CIT)
Dept. of Primary Industries, Water & Environment
8th Floor 134 Macquarie Street
Hobart, Tasmania 7000

Phone: (03) 6233 3942
Fax: (03) 6224 1388
Email: Thomas.Pride@dpiwe.tas.gov.au