I assumed throughout reading the posyts that mount.cifs works. I usually use mount -t cifs. So I tried your version (i.e. mount.cifs) and got these errors:
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improperly formatted UNC name. --verbose does not begin with \\ or //
Mounting the DFS root for domain not implemented yet
No ip address specified and hostname not found
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Then just by switching to mount -t cifs and dropping the "--verbose" bit, then it worked fine. So I suggest drop the verbose and try this:
mount -t cifs -o username=SERVERUSER,password=SERVERPASSWORD //IP_Address/documents /home/steme/Documents/fileserver1
I still think a real IP address would be required. If I use localhost address it just cracks up.