On Wednesday 28 January 2009, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote:
>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

Maybe somebody else can chime in here?

Thanks Dustin.

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