On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT 
net> wrote:
> /usr/bin/smbclient \\not.a.host.name\notashare -U nosuchuser -N -Tx /dev/null

I'm guessing that this line, for whatever reason, takes 30 seconds or
so to complete.  Maybe newer versions of samba or a different config
causes not.a.host.name to go through some resolution process that
times out rather than failing immediately?  I really know next to
nothing about Samba.

Dustin

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