Unable to remove mounts, multiple mounts - is there a better way?

I have a cifs/smb share that is shared from a Linux box and mounted on a Mac OS X box. I use finder -> Cmd-K to mount the share, but have experienced the following:
1. I have 2 shares mounted as /Volumes/sharename. They seem to time out(?), though sometimes the folder names remain in /Volumes. If I mount them again they appears as /Volumes/sharename-1. I need to have a fixed name for these mounts, as they are referenced by a shell script that runs regularly.
2. For some reason or other, the shell script is hanging hard - kill -9 doesn't touch it, so I assume it is hanging on an I/O call to a disappeared share - sharename-1 was there from earlier testing, but one of the shares had disappeared. I tried mounting again, but now I have 3 folders in /Volumes, ie /Volumes/shareA, /Volumes/shareA-1 and /Volumes/shareB, none of which work. Doing a "ls -l" in any of these hangs hard.
What is the right way to mount the shares at a predefined location, preferably at boot time? Do I have to disable anything? I know what I want, and would like Finder/OS X let me do it and stop trying to help or clean up, even after days of not using the shares.

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loop on results
if this is first time we've had this combination of t.description,
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Hi,
Summary:
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projection/aggregate queries? Is there a better way of doing what is
described below?
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