diff -rua samba-2.2.3a/source/lib/util.c samba-2.2.3a.patch/source/lib/util.c
--- samba-2.2.3a/source/lib/util.c	Sun Feb  3 01:46:42 2002
+++ samba-2.2.3a.patch/source/lib/util.c	Wed Apr 24 11:49:49 2002
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@
 	if (sys_stat(fname,sbuf) != 0) 
 		return(False);
 
-	return(S_ISREG(sbuf->st_mode));
+	return ((S_ISREG(sbuf->st_mode)) || (S_ISFIFO(sbuf->st_mode)));
 }
 
 /*******************************************************************