Hide "Users Shared Drive" and "Network Icon" on the Finder

Is there a way to Hide the Blue Highlighted Icons or Make it invisible on Finder. Thanks for the help...

Finder -> Preferences -> General -> Show these items on the desktop and uncheck the 'Connected Servers' option.
Alternatively, if you want to leave other servers showing, you can manually mount the volume at any other point, bypassing the /Volumes directory:
mount smb://server/sharename /some/other/mount
This should mount the share at the path /some/other/mount rather than at the default /Volumes/sharename

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Hide "Users Shared Drive" and "Network Icon" on the Finder

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