Add network icon onto dock

Hi All
I am totally new to Apple OS and it's now my job to administer them as a member of staff has left us who used to do all the mac admin.
We have an issue with adding a network icon to the dock. Some machines display it fine and others don't.
I remember him telling me that using workgroup manager doesn't work so he used to do it another way using a plist file or something along those lines. I've found the file he means but it's a .app file which contains a unix exe?
I've googled this problem and there seems to be people doing this with profile manager but we don't have this software. I assumed this could be done with workgroup manager but for some reason it doesn't.
The shortcut needs to simply go to \\servername\share
The other complication i'm going to have is that the \\servername\share is being moved to a different location as it's grown so big we have run out of space. The shortcut will need to be edited with the new sharename.
Could someone please explain to me what to do in the simplest terms possible? I'm a PC admin not a mac so I'll have no idea what the technical mac stuff means.
Thanks for taking the time to read this

This seems to work.
However the process I have to get to just to unlock the go menu and access the shortcut is rediculous hence wanting this to be an automated thing.
I have these .nib files that I have to copy over and replace over system files just to unlock the go menu, then I have to log out, log in, browse the network to then get the shortcut, lock the machine down and log out again.
We have about 40 macs and i'm not keen on manually doing this on all of them.
Here's the document I follow for this procedure:
To Regain sidebar and go accses replace the folder in /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/MenuBar .nib for the ones in Lockfider restorgo to:-/
cd /Users/administrator/Desktop/Lockfinder/Restorego/MenuBar.nib
sudo cp -r * "/System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/MenuBar .nib"
cd /Users/administrator/Desktop/Lockfinder/Restorego/PreferencesWindow.nib
sudo cp -r * "/System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/PreferencesWindow.nib"
To LOck down again Copy the files in Lockdowngo to /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/
cd /Users/administrator/Desktop/Lockfinder/Lockdowngo/MenuBar.nib
sudo cp -r * "/System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/MenuBar .nib"
cd /Users/administrator/Desktop/Lockfinder/Lockdowngo/PreferencesWindow.nib
sudo cp -r * "/System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/PreferencesWindow.nib"
Absolutely crazy! With windows server and group policy this is a breeze

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