cifs: connect to servername instead of IP for IPC$ share
This patch is required allows access to a Microsoft fileserver failover cluster behind a 1:1 NAT firewall. The change also provides stronger context for authentication and share connection (see MS-SMB2 3.3.5.7 and MS-SRVS 3.1.6.8) as noted by Tom Talpey, and addresses comments about the buffer size for the UNC made by Aurélien Aptel. Signed-off-by: Thomas Werschlein <thomas.werschlein@geo.uzh.ch> Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com> CC: Tom Talpey <ttalpey@microsoft.com> Reviewed-by: Aurelien Aptel <aaptel@suse.com> CC: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
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