Terastation attached to SuSE

SuSE wizards, I’m stumped by this and was wondering if anyone could shed some light on this:

I have a SuSE Linux distro installed at a customer site with a newly attached terastation. Not sure which version, uname -a shows:
Linux directory 2.4.21-286-athlon #1

The can get the terastation attached using this command:

mount -t smbfs -o guest //192.168.0.9/directory /terastation

problem with that is I can’t chown or preserve any ownership on files that are copied to it.

I umounted it and tried:

directory:~/h # mount -t cifs -o username=username,password=password //192.168.0.9/directory /terastation
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on //192.168.0.9/directory,
or too many mounted file systems

I know the terastation is ok because I have other non-SuSE Linux boxes attached with no problems.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.