Script to connect to Windows via command line on an OS X machine

connect.sh

#!/bin/sh

WINDOWSHOST = "//user@guest-hostname" 
SHAREDIR = "~/smb"

# make sure the mount dir on host exists
if [ ! -d "$SHAREDIR/$1" ]; then
  mkdir "$SHAREDIR/$1"
fi

# if there's something in the mount, because either share is active or files
#  are hanging around, cancel the mount process
if find "$SHAREDIR/$1" -maxdepth 0 -empty | read v; then
  rm -rf "$SHAREDIR/$1"
  mkdir "$SHAREDIR/$1"
  mount -t smbfs "$WINDOWSHOST/$1" "$SHAREDIR/$1"
fi

# move into the mount and enumerate all files to fill the cache
cd "$SHAREDIR/$1"
ls -laR > /dev/null