ARD: Unix commands wait forever

Hello,
I run a cluster of 30 iMacs. We've just updated them to Mountain Lion, and when trying to control them via ARD, all Unix commands (even hostname or echo a) show as "waiting" and never complete.
All machines involved are running Mountain Lion (or Mountain Lion Server in the case of the ARD master machine) and ARD 3.6.2.
Can you think of anything that might be causing this? Unix commands used to work instantly before the upgrade to Mountain Lion.
Thanks,
Louise

In addition to the sources Templeton mentioned, a good book on UNIX for Mac OS X (such as the O'Reilly books) would be useful. You can send through ARD many of the UNIX commands that Mac OS X recognizes, though of course you have to be careful what you send or you can cause yourself lots of problems.

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