Mounting Samba (Windows) drive via shell script

This question is for the seasoned Unix geeks among us.
I have a `zsh' script (read bash/ksh on steriods) at work that prepares my build environment prior to running an Ant script (read `make' for Java). The Ant script actually looks for code that is on a shared directory, usually mounted over Samba (cifs). If I forget to manually mount this drive (Finder > Go > Connect to Server...) then the script will bomb.
Now, I have tried various attempts at using the `mount_*' commands, but can't seem to get them to actually mount a drive. I'm fairly certain that `mount_smbfs' is what I want to use, but calling it doesn't seem to work as the `man' file suggests. Naturally, I want to add this mounting call to my environment setup prior to calling the build script.
Any tips from a seasoned Unix hack out there? Thanks!
Tim

There is a unix forum here which would be a better place for this question, but I believe the problem is you haven't created a mount point in the Volumes folder which would then be the path argument.
Here is the examples from the mount_afp
EXAMPLES
The following example illustrates how to mount the afp volume server.com-
pany.com/volumename/ at the mount point /Volumes/mntpnt:
mkdir /Volumes/mntpnt
mount_afp afp://username:[email protected]/volumename/ /Volumes/mntpnt
This example shows the proper url to use to mount the volume guestVolume
from the afp server myserver as guest:
mkdir /Volumes/guest
mount_afp "afp://;AUTH=No%20User%20Authent@myserver/guestVolume" /Volumes/guest
This example shows the proper url to use to mount the volume myVolume
from the afp server myserver using Kerberos authentication:
mkdir /Volumes/myVolume
mount_afp "afp://;AUTH=Client%20Krb%20v2@myserver/myVolume" /Volumes/myVolume

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This is a custom script for UN-mount citrix share
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Tomorrow I will test again when I'm at office.
Meanwhile can you check if I made a macroscopic mistakes?
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