On Wednesday 28 January 2009, Benjamin Lewis wrote:
>Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
>> What do you get if you run:
>>  /usr/bin/smbclient '//not.a.host.name/notashare' -U nosuchuser -N -Tx
>> /dev/null
>>
>> Maybe your DNS is slow to return that 'not.a.host.name' is not a valid
>> hostname
>> Check your DNS configuration.
>
>I think it would be a good idea to pick some other name to test with
>since the .name TLD has come into existence.  host.name and a.host.name
>both resolve.  There's no reason that not.a.host.name couldn't resolve
>someday.
>
>Thanks,
>
>-Ben

Now that makes sense.  As Jean-Louis would say, patches to configure.in 
welcome. :-)


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