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Why doesn't smbclient work?

Symptoms:
You can mount a NetApp 'shared drive' using the mount program fine.
But if you try to browse it using smbclient, you get this error when it fails to connect:
session setup failed: NT_STATUS_MORE_PROCESSING_REQUIRED

Cause:
A bug in Ubuntu 11.04

Workaround:
Change your hostname to a short string, without any hypens (dashes) in it!

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