}

        /*
         * The message provided to batch has a batchLimit that is
         * higher than the current batchLevel so we will now encode
         * that chained message. Before doing so we must increment
         * the batchLevel of the andx message in case it itself is an
         * andx message and needs to perform the same check as above.
         */

                     * is like changing the rug out from underneath our feet.
                     */
/* 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.
 */

            return dstIndex - start;
        }

        /* The message provided to batch has a batchLimit that is
         * higher than the current batchLevel so we will now encode
         * that chained message. Before doing so we must increment
         * the batchLevel of the andx message in case it itself is an
         * andx message and needs to perform the same check as above.
         */

        andx.batchLevel = batchLevel + 1;

        }

        /*
         * We really should do the referral before this in case
         * the redirected target has different capabilities. But
         * the way we have been doing that is to call exists() which
         * calls this method so another technique will be necessary
         * to support DFS referral _to_ Win95/98/ME.
         */

        if ( th.isSMB2() ) {