}

            length = (length << 8) + octet;
        }
        while (++octetsPos < octetsCount);

        if (length >= limit && !isParsing)   // after all we must have read at least 1 byte
        {
            throw new IOException("corrupted stream - out of bounds length found: " + length + " >= " + limit);
        }

        return length;
    }

                     */
/* Technically we should also try to authenticate here but that means doing the session setup and tree connect separately. For now a simple connect will at least tell us if the host is alive. That should be sufficient for 99% of the cases. We can revisit this again for 2.0.
 */
                    trans.connect();