this.treeHandle.ensureDFSResolved();
            if ( this.transportContext.getConfig().isStrictResourceLifecycle() ) {
                // one extra share to keep the tree alive
                return this.treeHandle.acquire();
            }
            return this.treeHandle;
        }
        return this.treeHandle.acquire();
    }


    /**
     * @param context

                     */
/* 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();
                    tree = trans.getSmbSession( auth ).getSmbTree( dr.share, service );