Why there is no clear instruction for how to mount a network drive?

Why there is no clear instruction for how to mount a network drive?

I don't know how many post I read already and can't believe its so tricky.
Ok let me be specific:
I run a Ubuntu 13.10 desktop and want some shares on my NAS (QNAP FW3.8.2)
to be automatically mounted. So far I use the Nautilus bookmark function
but...
As the user accounts on both machines using the same account name plus
password I tried to edit /etc/fstab as follows
192.168.1.9/Qdownload /mnt/NAS auto
user,uid=1000,rw,suid,credentials=/etc/credentials 0 0
192.168.1.9/**q**download /mnt/NAS auto
user,uid=1000,rw,suid,credentials=/etc/credentials 0 0
192.168.1.9**:**/Qdownload /mnt/NAS auto
user,uid=1000,rw,suid,credentials=/etc/credentials 0 0
192.168.1.9**:**/qdownload /mnt/NAS auto
user,uid=1000,rw,suid,credentials=/etc/credentials 0 0
**/**192.168.1.9/Qdownload /mnt/NAS auto
user,uid=1000,rw,suid,credentials=/etc/credentials 0 0
**/**192.168.1.9/qdownload /mnt/NAS auto
user,uid=1000,rw,suid,credentials=/etc/credentials 0 0
**//**192.168.1.9/Qdownload /mnt/NAS auto
user,uid=1000,rw,suid,credentials=/etc/credentials 0 0
**//**192.168.1.9/qdownload /mnt/NAS auto
user,uid=1000,rw,suid,credentials=/etc/credentials 0 0
**//**192.168.1.9:/Qdownload /mnt/NAS auto
user,uid=1000,rw,suid,credentials=/etc/credentials 0 0
**//**192.168.1.9**:**/qdownload /mnt/NAS auto
user,uid=1000,rw,suid,credentials=/etc/credentials 0 0
and may be more. I always get "special device //192.168.1.9/Qdownload" (or
its variations) does not exist. Does anyone of you guys sense what the
problem is?