Mount error when mounting Windows Server share

Question

Trying to mount a share on a Windows Server I have in my home.
When I use:   
smbclient -L SERVERNAME -U administrator
and I enter the password after the prompt
It returns a list of all the shares in the server like so:
Domain=[SERVERNAME] OS=[Windows Server 2003 3790 Service Pack 2] Server=[Windows Server 2003 5.2]
Sharename Type Comment
SHARE1 Disk Shared folder
SHARE2 Disk Shared folder
SHARE3 Disk Shared folder
Domain=[SERVERNAME] OS=[Windows Server 2003 3790 Service Pack 2] Server=[Windows Server 2003 5.2]
Server Comment
Workgroup Master
but when I try to mount of the shares with
# mount -t cifs //SERVERNAME/SHARE1 /mnt/mountpoint -o user=administrator,password=password
it returns an error
mount error: could not resolve address for SERVERNAME: Unknown error
Am I doing something wrong?
Thanks,

Answer 1

the SERVERNAME in these commands is a netbiosname and can differ from the  hostname.
Smbclient seems to use it's own method to resolve netbiosnames, possibly the mount command uses a different method.
Try the mount command with the ip-address of the server instead of SERVERNAME to verify mounting the share works.
If the share can be mounted by //ip-address/SHARE1 , you may need additional options for the mount command to make netbios name resolution work correctly.
check man mount.cifs .
edit : typo's
Last edited by Lone_Wolf (2013-08-10 12:40:47)