SMB Protocol disconnect (deadtime) setting

We are implementing an Xserve G5 as a NAS, and Apple has confirmed that using the SMB protocol (which we must use due to connections from Windows clients) has a default setting to disconnect after a certain time of inactivity.
I was told to modify the /etc/smb.conf file to include the setting:
deadtime = 0
After doing this and restarting the server, we are noticing clients are still getting disconnected after being idle. I am certain other people have needed to do this, so wondering if anyone has any experience setting this up properly? Thank you,

Haha,
I figured it out, although I don't pretend to know exactly why it works.
Here is what I did.
Instead of "smb://servername/share", I put in "smb://servername.mycompany.com/share".
On the WinXP computer, typing in "\\servername.mycompany.com\share" also worked.
I'm thinking it has something to do with DNS, but I'm not sure exactly. I'm just glad that it worked. I got the idea from this link here. http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20080307092123215
Thanks all,
Ck

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