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Samba mount a Windows share command syntax???

Debian 5 - I've got a couple of Windows shares defined in fstab that are not mounting.  The server's motherboard fried, so we got an identical server make and model, and swapped out the drives.  The other shares mounted just fine.  So I'm trying mount them manually.  Here's the syntax I'm using.  

mount -t  //WindowsServer/WindowsShare /var/dir/dir  cifs nocase, username=xxx,password='xxxxxxx' 0 0

And when I execute the command it just brings up the syntax help page for the mount command.  Suggestions on how to fix this problem????

 The command is `mount [-t fstype] something somewhere'.
> Details found in /etc/fstab may be omitted.
>        mount -a [-t|-O] ...     : mount all stuff from /etc/fstab
>        mount device             : mount device at the known place
>        mount directory          : mount known device here
>        mount -t type dev dir    : ordinary mount command
> Note that one does not really mount a device, one mounts
> a filesystem (of the given type) found on the device.
> One can also mount an already visible directory tree elsewhere:
>        mount --bind olddir newdir
> or move a subtree:
>        mount --move olddir newdir
> One can change the type of mount containing the directory dir:
>        mount --make-shared dir
>        mount --make-slave dir
>        mount --make-private dir
>        mount --make-unbindable dir
> One can change the type of all the mounts in a mount subtree
> containing the directory dir:
>        mount --make-rshared dir
>        mount --make-rslave dir
>        mount --make-rprivate dir
>        mount --make-runbindable dir
> A device can be given by name, say /dev/hda1 or /dev/cdrom,
> or by label, using  -L label  or by uuid, using  -U uuid .
> Other options: [-nfFrsvw] [-o options] [-p passwdfd].
> For many more details, say  man 8 mount .
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Thanks worked like a charm.