[linux-cifs-client] Re: mounting win98se share with cifs

[Steve French (smfltc)]

>"servernetbiosname=hostname" worked...
>I wonder whether it would be worthwhile to have the client try the
> server portion of the unc string as the servernetbiosname?

Yes - mount.cifs should do this (patch would be welcome).  A few
minor things to make sure of seem to be:
1) retrying on (only) the right mount errors (no sense retrying on all mount errors)
2) making sure we do this (ie the 2nd retry, that which includes the servernetbiosname) 
with uppercase sharename and servername (and should we specify port 139 - I don't remember
if the kernel code tries port 445 in the case in which "servernetbiosname" is specified
on the mount)